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Memorials, Part I, Family and Personal [and] Part II, Personal and...

Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne

Limited to 50 Copies, This One Has Four Notable Associations Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne, [1812-1895]. Memorials. Part I: Family and Personal, 1766-1855. Privately Printed. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1889. ix, 436 pp. [And] Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne. Memorials. Part II: Personal and Political, 1854-1890. Privately Printed. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1892. x, 634 pp. Complete set, as issued. Contemporary stached buckram, gilt title to spines. Top edges gilt. Dampspotting, fading to spines, spine ends and corners bumped, hinges starting. Owner signature of Mary Henrietta Palmer to front endleaf of Volume I. Previous owner inscription of Lucy Dorothea Palmer dated August 1893 and later owner inscription of Clemency Angell dated 1960 to front endleaf of Volume II, early signature of Mary D. Waldegrave" to its title page. Light toning to interior. A good set with an interesting set of associations. $125. * First edition, limited to 50 sets (according to the National Library of Scotland). Palmer was a prominent nineteenth-century jurist, lawyer and statesman. Among other offices, he was Lord Chancellor under Gladstone from 1872 to 1874 and 1880 to 1885. The volumes, published in two parts, detail his life, family history, and political career. A second and final edition, in four volumes with plates, was published by Macmillan in 1896-1898. Our copy of the limited edition has four notable associations: Mary Henrietta Palmer, [b.1872], was a niece of Roundell Palmer, as a daughter of his brother Archdeacon Edwin Palmer. Lucy Dorothea Palmer, [b.1873], was a niece of Roundell Palmer, as a daughter of his brother Archdeacon Edwin Palmer. Mary D[orothea] Waldegrave, (aka Mary "May" Dorothea Palmer), [1850-1933], was a daughter of Roundell Palmer and his wife, Laura, a daughter of the 8th Earl Waldegrave. Mary Waldegrave was appointed a citation for her work as Deputy President of the Somerset branch of the British Red Cross Society during World War I. Clemency Angell, is likely the esteemed twentieth-century British artist Clemency Angell (1900-1980). Her first name was Amice, but she seems to have gone mostly by her middle name, Clemency. (https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KJPK-2GM/archdeacon-edwin-palme r-1824-1895). OCLC locates 4 copies of Volume I (British Library, British Library Refer.

Price: $125.00

Book number 83858