- 963
(The Ladies of Llangollen) — Ginés Pérez de Hita
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description
- Historia de las Guerras Civiles de Granada. Amberes [Antwerp]: Henrico y Cornelio Verdussen, 1714
- Ink. paper and cow
8vo (7 x 4 3/8 in.; 176 x 110 mm). Printer's device on title page, wooden initials; contemporary manuscript notes in English on first and final blank, uniformly browned. Eighteenth-century English straigth-grained green morocco [probably by Roger Payne], blind-tooled border and elaborated gilt frame.
Provenance
The Ladies of Llagollen (manuscript notes on verso of endpaper: From E, Butler & [...] Ponsonby sale - Llangollen Augst 1832. £1.5 - August 15, 1832, lot 467) — Catherine Cleaver, Augst 1832 (signature). acquisition: Bernard Quaritch, 2003
Catalogue Note
The Ladies of Llagollen copy.
Eleanor Charlotte Butler and Sarah Ponsonby lived together in Wales after running away from their families to avoid unwanted marriages. They became famous and many famous people came to visit them, mostly writers such as William Wordsworth, Percy Shelley, Lord Byron and Sir Walter Scott. The ladies lived together for over fifty years.