Estate / Collection: Property from the Collection of Alistair Bradley Martin

[FINE BINDING]
[FORBES, JAMES]. Ricordanza. Memoir of Elizabeth Dalton; who died On the 16th December, 1812. Aged 59. London: Printed by Edward Bridgewater, 1813. A finely bound copy with the manuscript note at front "Copy of an unfinished memoir selected for her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta/Abermarle Street 12th October 1813" and with the ex-library stamp of King Ernst Augustus of Hanover to the title verso. Contemporary full dark blue straight grained morocco, the covers with a tooled border, the spine tooled and lettered in gilt with a repeating urn motif, gilt turn-ins, plain endpapers, all edges gilt, housed in a folding cloth case. 8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches (22 x 13 cm); engraved portrait frontispiece, 225 pp. Fine overall, the binding only slightly rubbed, offset to title from frontis, bump to lower extremity of final text leaf, ink number to rear endpaper.

Scarce recollections of the author's sister, a Quaker woman from the aristocratic Forbes family, likely privately printed. This copy was finely bound for Princess Augusta.