The Fate of Derwentwater, a Play in Three Acts
by Charles William Rothery
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, Green, 1865. Hardcover. Very Good. [frontispiece] [4] pp 36 [3 plates] Scarce play with a mountaineering frontispiece sketched by the author and lithographed by Day and Sons. The play is set in the aftermath of the Northumbrian Jacobite rebellion of 1715 in which Countess Derwentwater escaped, and saved her liberty and the family jewels by clambering up one of the clefts of Wallabarrow Crag, since called the Lady's Rake. Bound in purple cloth with the original black label to the upper cover with faded lettering; brown coated endpapers with bookplate of Wood Hollin Hall on the first pastedown, foxing to preliminaries, three further full page engravings. Very Good 1865
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- Bookseller
- Christian White Rare Books Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3235
- Title
- The Fate of Derwentwater, a Play in Three Acts
- Author
- Charles William Rothery
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, Green
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1865
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About the Seller
Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
About Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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