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Creator:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827
Title(s):
The testament of Charlotte B. / edited & introduced by Marius Kociejowski ; decorated by Richard Shirley Smith.
Published/Created:
Marlborough, England : Libanus Press, 1988.
Physical Description:
68 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
MSS 17 Moss no. 118
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Roger W. Moss
[Request]
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Consists of 2 letters discovered by the editor to be from Charlotte Biggs to Sir David Ochterlony.
Richard Shirley Smith's decorations comprise line drawings, including cover and five chapter heads, one repeated.
"This edition is limited to 220 copies set in Monotype Garamond, printed on handmade Amatruda paper and bound by Smith Settle of Otley. 50 copies are bound specially and numbered I-L."--Colophon.
Moss, R.W. Richard Shirley Smith, 118
BAC: British Art Center copy is copy is no. XXX [30] of 220. Bound in purple quarter leather and illustrated boards; in publisher's original clamshell box. With the prospectus for this work laid in ([2] p.).
SML,AOB: "This is copy no. 78"--Colophon.
Subject Terms:
Biggs, Charlotte, d. 1827 -- Correspondence.
Heaviside, Richard.
Ochterlony, David, Sir, d. 1825 -- Correspondence.
Women -- England -- Correspondence.
Form/Genre:
Prospectuses.
Contributors:
Shirley Smith, Richard, engraver.
Kociejowski, Marius.
Ochterlony, David, Sir, d. 1825.
Setttle, Smith.
Moss, Roger W., 1940– former owner.
Libanus Press.
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