1890 Unique Known Copy - Mary Anne Wilmot Hastings (née Westenra), Countess of Huntingdon Tales - A Few Short Stories.
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Author: Wilmot, Countess of Huntingdon.
Title: A Few SHORT STORIES.
Publisher: No place, no publisher (privately printed), no date, circa 1890
Language: Text in English.
Size: 7 " X 5 ".
Pages: 84 pages.
Binding: Very good original full calf leather binding with the gilt initials of Countess of Huntington on the front board (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed - as shown) under a protective removable mylar cover.
Content: Very good content (bright, tight and clean, gift note of a previous 1904 owner on the second blank - as shown).
Illustrations: Nicely illustrated with title vignettes.
The book: Unique Known Copy (not in Worldcat) of those privately printed tales by the Countess of Huntington. Including: Shadows and Sunlight on the Blue Blue Waters, Warbling Jack, The Magic of the Four-Leaved Shamrock, A Visit to a Slate Quarry, The History of a Sixpence, A Ride Up Snowdown, A True Story about a Bantam, What the Fir Tree Said, and, The Story of a Palm.
The author: Mary Anne Wilmot Hastings (née Westenra), Countess of Huntingdon. Born Miss Mary Anne Wilmot Westenra on 3 July 1847, she was the only child of Colonel the Honourable John Craven Westenra and his wife Anne née Daubuz.
On 15 August 1867 she married Francis Power Plantagenet Hastings, Viscount Hastings, who succeeded his father as 14th Earl of Huntingdon in 1875. Their marriage produced three sons and five daughters before the early death of the Earl in 1885.
The Dowager Countess of Huntingdon died on 16 December 1894.