JANUARY FINE ESTATES CHARLESTON SC
Lot 218:
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15 Antique Volumes of Lives of The Queens of England from The Norman Conquest by Agnes Stickland. From the Official Records and Other Private and Public Authentic Documents. All are preceded by a biographical introduction by John Foster Kirk in sixteen volumes with plates. Printed only for subscribers by George Barrie & Sons, Philadelphia 1903 in a limited number of 1000 copies, these are numbered #436. All are red board bound with deckled edges and gold gilt sprayed edges on top. Over the course of the 1840s, Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland published their multi-volume history of the queens of England. Only Agnes? name appeared on the title pages of Lives of the Queens of England, as her attention-averse older sister preferred. Few people knew that these queen biographies were the work of a team, but, as their sister Jane Margaret Strickland (six of the eight Strickland siblings became writers) points out, it would have been quite the feat if ?one person?produced the serial volumes in such rapid succession.? The sisters went on to write histories of bachelor kings and bishops, as well as a number of other queens. Agnes had started her career writing books intended to give children the same appreciation for the past that her father, and her own self-guided curriculum, had instilled in her. Each volume measures about 8.5" x 5.75" x 1.5" and total lot weight is about 23 lbs.
Condition: good. wear, markings, and discoloration due to age/material
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