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The Pearl of Days. [FARQUHAR (Barbara H.)]
KING GEORGE OF HANOVER'S COPY
The Pearl of Days: or, the Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working Classes. By a Labourer's Daughter. With a Sketch of the Author's Life. Thirtieth Thousand.
Woodcut frontispiece and three plates by E. Whimper, and woodcut vignettes.
12mo. [188 x 117 x 11 mm]. xiv, [ii], 90, [10] pp. Bound in the original red cloth, the covers blocked in blind with the royal arms and title in gilt on the front, the spine lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, pale yellow endleaves, gilt edges.
London: [by Benjamin Pardon for] Partridge and Oakey; and D. Robertson [in Glasgow], 1849
First published in 1848. A very good copy. There is a four page list of subscribers, including a group of servants. It was dedicated to Queen Victoria, and this copy belonged to her cousin, King George V of Hanover (1819-1878), and has his red ink stamp on the verso of the title. George was the only child of Ernest Augustus I, and in 1851 he succeeded him as King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh. In 1866 he was deposed by his first cousin, William I of Prussia. He died in Paris and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Stock no. ebc2746
KING GEORGE OF HANOVER'S COPY
The Pearl of Days: or, the Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working Classes. By a Labourer's Daughter. With a Sketch of the Author's Life. Thirtieth Thousand.
Woodcut frontispiece and three plates by E. Whimper, and woodcut vignettes.
12mo. [188 x 117 x 11 mm]. xiv, [ii], 90, [10] pp. Bound in the original red cloth, the covers blocked in blind with the royal arms and title in gilt on the front, the spine lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, pale yellow endleaves, gilt edges.
London: [by Benjamin Pardon for] Partridge and Oakey; and D. Robertson [in Glasgow], 1849
First published in 1848. A very good copy. There is a four page list of subscribers, including a group of servants. It was dedicated to Queen Victoria, and this copy belonged to her cousin, King George V of Hanover (1819-1878), and has his red ink stamp on the verso of the title. George was the only child of Ernest Augustus I, and in 1851 he succeeded him as King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh. In 1866 he was deposed by his first cousin, William I of Prussia. He died in Paris and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Stock no. ebc2746
KING GEORGE OF HANOVER'S COPY
The Pearl of Days: or, the Advantages of the Sabbath to the Working Classes. By a Labourer's Daughter. With a Sketch of the Author's Life. Thirtieth Thousand.
Woodcut frontispiece and three plates by E. Whimper, and woodcut vignettes.
12mo. [188 x 117 x 11 mm]. xiv, [ii], 90, [10] pp. Bound in the original red cloth, the covers blocked in blind with the royal arms and title in gilt on the front, the spine lettered in gilt and blocked in blind, pale yellow endleaves, gilt edges.
London: [by Benjamin Pardon for] Partridge and Oakey; and D. Robertson [in Glasgow], 1849
First published in 1848. A very good copy. There is a four page list of subscribers, including a group of servants. It was dedicated to Queen Victoria, and this copy belonged to her cousin, King George V of Hanover (1819-1878), and has his red ink stamp on the verso of the title. George was the only child of Ernest Augustus I, and in 1851 he succeeded him as King of Hanover, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale and Earl of Armagh. In 1866 he was deposed by his first cousin, William I of Prussia. He died in Paris and was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor.
Stock no. ebc2746