London, New York, Bombay, Longmans, Green, and Co.
Year:
1905
FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Large 8vo, pp. xxi [xxii blank, xxiii "Corrigenda," xxiv blank], 350; ix [x blank], 340, frontispiece in each volume, 30 illustrations in volume 1, 25 illustrations in volume 2, original purple cloth; spines sunned, very light wear to extremities, slightly bumped, some shelf wear to spine, w/o dust cover, some foxing here and there, o/w fine.
"In 1785, the Prince of Wales contracted a clandestine marriage with Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Roman Catholic. His marriage being without the king's consent and consequently invalid, the princely libertine ventured to satisfy the fair lady's scruples, and to indulge his own passions; while he was released from the sacred obligations of the marriage tie, and saved from the forfeiture of his succession to the crown, which would have been the legal consequence of a valid marriage with a Roman Catholic" , Erskine May, Chapter IV, pp 262-272.
Price: £35.00
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