Buy this book on-line POORE,LADY Ida: : AN ADMIRAL'S WIFE IN THE MAKING 1860-1913LONDON,SMITH,ELDER & CO.,1917. ISBN No ISBN
UK,8vo HB,1st edn.VG+.No owner inscrptn, but a blue ink,"WITHDRAWN FROM PLYMOUTH LIBRARY SERVICES" rectangular stamp to ffe,and a blue+white MOUNT WISE NAVAL HISTORY LIBRARY - Plymouth Public Libraries bookplate pasted to front pastedown.The rear free endpaper has a small,missing torn lower corner.8vo HB,1st
edn,ix-xiiipp+3-373pp [paginated] includes
contents+portraits lists/tables,Pts I-IV comprising 70 chapters in total,and an index.Plus,[unpaginated] half-title page, authoress's b/w portrait frntis,title-page,dedication page,authoress's preface, Pts I-IV separator pages and 2pp blanks at
rear.
An account,by a naval wife,of her childhood upbringing as both a Dean's (Dean of the Chapel Royal) and Bishop's (Bishop of Limerick) daughter,1860-1885, and then as a naval Commander's and Captain's wife,1885-1903.The authoress had
earlier written 'Recollections of an Admiral's Wife.',also by the same publisher,in 1916,describing Australia and
its society,as her husband was appointed Admiral in charge of the Australian Station of the Royal Navy between 1908-1911. Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of POORE,LADY Ida: : AN ADMIRAL'S WIFE IN THE MAKING 1860-1913. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including collectables, used books, livres anciens, out-of-print books and antiquarian books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |