He and Ava Alice Muriel Astor were divorced in 1952. During the Gilded Age, marrying British aristocrats was seen as a way for 'American Dollar Princesses' to raise their social status in return for much-needed wealth to an aristocrat, as speculated in this case based upon the inheritance custom of primogeniture in England previous to 1925. He married American heiress and socialite Ava Alice Muriel Astor (1902-1956), daughter of John Jacob Astor IV and Ava Loel Willing, on. Besides being an aristocrat, David made a name for himself as a British Modernist architect. Ownership passed to their son David Pleydell-Bouverie who was born in Godalming, Surrey, England on. Stuart was the second son of William Pleydell-Bouverie, 5th Earl of Radnor (1841-1900), Viscount Folkestone, Baron of Longford and Baron Pleydell-Bouverie of Coleshill in the County of Berks & Baronet. Stuart Pleydell-Bouverie DSO, OBE (1877-1947) of Radnor and Edith Dorothy Vickers (1878-1949). Provenance: Ex-libris armorial bookplate of Hon. Measures: 1 (5.75 overall) W x 5.25 D x 7.5 H inches. SLOANE ST W." In each volume, ex- libris bookplate on verso of front board, Front free endpaper of each volume signed and dated "Dorothy Bouverie - 1900". Quarter burgundy leather, spine detailed with raised hubs and compartments, gilt tooling and lettering, gilt upper leaf edges, marble endpapers, bound by/stamped "TRUSLOVE & HANSON - 6.
III at extremities, light ink mark to title of vol. II with slight loss of colour to spine to the same, light bumps to vol. I, and minor colour touch-up to the cloth, small chip to the rear cloth of vol. Drake of New York (wrongly placing the inscription as in Kingsley's autograph) loosely inserted. With old bookseller's description from James F. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco box. Original blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, yellow endpapers. By the time of publication the Crimean War had switched public angst towards Russia, but it remained just as timely and the novel's nostalgic and rose-tinted look at the Elizabethan golden age struck a chord with its Victorian readership. Kingsley's greatest popular success, Westward Ho! was originally planned as a patriotic tale about the defeat of the Spanish Armada at a time when Napoleon III's anti-English posturing was alarming many of Kingsley's countrymen. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed "From The Author" in a secretarial hand on the half-title of vol.
0 kommentar(er)
