Memorials, Part II Family and Personal and Political: 1865-1895.
Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne, [1812-1895]. Palmer, Sophia M[atilda], [1852-1915]. Memorials, Part II Personal and Political 1865-1895. London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1898. First edition. 2 volumes. xii, 496; vii, 502 pp. Frontispieces, portraits. Original blue cloth with gilt stamped spines and front boards. Deckle edges. Moderate shelfwear with some rubbing to spines and extremities. Previous owner inscription "For Aunt Etta/ From Sophia" and later owner inscription of Clemency Angell dated 1960 to half-title of Volume II. Pencil signature of H. Palmer to front endleaf of Volume I. A very good set. $125. * 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 three notable associations: Mary Henrietta Palmer, [b.1872], was a niece of Roundell Palmer, as a daughter of his brother Archdeacon Edwin Palmer. Lady Sophia M. Palmer, comtesse de Franqueville (1852-1915), wife of Charles Franquet, comte de Franqueville (1840-1922). 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). (archives.yale.edu/agents/people/96654).
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