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THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR DISRAELI AND MRS BRYDGES WILLIAMS, 1851-1863.
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Ordinary edition: 200 copies full bound in red cloth, blocked in gold on spine. Price: £175.00
Special edition: 35 copies for sale (of 100) bound in dark red Niger goat skin, with grey cloth sides and gilt edges, blocked in gilt on spine. Price: £300.00
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Notes
With a Foreword by Lord Rothschild. Edited with an Introduction by Andrew Roberts. The Roxburghe Club, 2006.
‘Do you know a mad woman living in Torquay called Mrs Brydges Willyams?’, asked Disraeli. Once re-assured that she was not mad, Disraeli accepted Mrs Brydges Willyams’ invitation to become her executor and residual legatee. There followed a twelve year correspondence between them of 250 letters that have not been published before in full. Considered too sensitive at the time of Disraeli’s death, the letters contain his comments and observations on people and events from 1851-1863. When Mrs Brydges Willyams died, Disraeli inherited the equivalent of £2 million in today’s values. The letters were preserved by Disraeli’s executors, one of whom became the first Lord Rothschild.
The present Lord Rothschild explains in his Foreword how the correspondence came to be at Waddesdon and why he has decided to publish it. The eight page introduction is written by Andrew Roberts, the historian, who has edited the letters and annotated them. There are eight pages of coloured plates. Printed in an edition of 300 copies.
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- HERALDO MEMORIALE. OR MEMOIRS OF THE COLLEGE OF ARMS FROM 1727 TO 1744.
- VOLTAIRE. THÉRÈSE, A FRAGMENT.
- ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY. By John Dreyfus.
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- TWO EAST ANGLIAN PICTURE BOOKS.
- THE LAST YEARS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS.
- SIR THOMAS SMITH’S MISMANAGEMENT OF THE VIRGINIA COMPANY BY NICHOLAS FERRAR.
- SYON ABBEY.
- JAMES BOSWELL’S BOOK OF COMPANY AT AUCHINLECK.
- IL QUADRIREGIO.
- THE SEARCH FOR THE SOURCE OF THE NILE.
- JAN HUYGEN VAN LINSCHOTEN AND THE MORAL MAP OF ASIA.
- THE GREAT BOOK OF THOMAS TREVILIAN.
- RONALD FIRBANK. LETTERS TO HIS MOTHER, 1920-24 and LA PRINCESSE AUX SOLEILS.
- THE TOLLEMACHE BOOK OF SECRETS.
- THE WIZARD EARL’S ADVICES TO HIS SON.
- FRAGMENTA REGALIA. OBSERVATIONS OF THE LATE QUEENE ELIZABETH, HIR TIMES AND FAUORITES.
- THE ARUNDEL CHOIRBOOK.
- HOLKHAM LIBRARY: A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION.
- THE LIBRARY OF THOMAS TRESHAM AND THOMAS BRUDENELL.
- INIGO JONES’S ROMAN SKETCHBOOK.
- THE CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN MR DISRAELI AND MRS BRYDGES WILLIAMS, 1851-1863.
- WALPOLE, HORACE. A Description of the Villa at Strawberry-Hill. A Facsimile of the copy extra-illustrated for Charles Bedford in the collection of Lord Waldegrave of North Hill. Edited by Nicolas Barker. The Roxburghe Club. 2010.
- JOHN SCOTTOWE’S ALPHABET BOOKS.
- BIBLIOTHECA LINDESIANA.
- THE MIRROURE OF THE WORLDE. MS BODLEY 283 (ENGLAND c. 1470-1480).