LETTERS OF LADY RACHEL RUSSELL; FROM THE MANUSCRIPT IN THE LIBRARY AT WOBURN ABBEY. TO WHICH IS PREFIXED, AN INTRODUCTION, VINDICATING THE CHARACTER OF LORD RUSSELL AGAINST SIR JOHN DALRYMPLE, &C.
London. Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1773. Second Edition, Corrected. Leather-bound. Quarto, 10.75 in. x 8.25 in., pp. lxxii, 216. Contemporary smooth calf. Gilt title on contrasting red label to rebound spine. Corners lightly nudged. Wide margins with marginalia. Previous owner's armorial bookplate (Family Berens) to front pastedown. Light spotting to endpapers. Touch of worming on the fore-edge margin from pp. 126 - endpapers. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good. Item #84830
Containing 158 letters from the manuscripts in the Woburn Abbey Library.
Lady Rachel Russell was an author and avid letter writer, many of which were published posthumously in 1772. She was a noble woman who played a public and active role in trying to mitigate her husband's punishment and the damage to his reputation when he was arrested and executed for his participation in the Rye House Plot (1683). Through the content discovered in the publication of her letters and the political actions Lady Russell took throughout her widowhood, she has been celebrated as a highly accomplished and virtuous woman. (from The New Historia)
Bookplate of H. and Mn. Berens.
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