EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL by Baroness de Calabrella 1846 Engravings

Description: EVENINGS AT HADDON HALL by Baroness de Calabrella 1846 Engravings POB#55973 TITLE: Evenings at Haddon Hall AUTHOR: Edited by the Baroness de Calabrella. With illustrations, from designs by George Cattermole. PUBLISHER: London: Henry Colburn DATE: 1846DESCRIPTION: [vii], 453 pages, 25cm CONDITION NOTES: VERY GOOD. Solid page and cover attachment, though one back gutter wide without peril of detachment. Full caps and lightly rubbed joints. Uneven sunning to top of front and back cover and some general fading to cloth cover areas. Old dealer notes on ffep. Offsetting to title page and in several other places.BINDING: Half black morocco over violet cloth. Compartmented spine titled in gilt. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers..PROVENANCE: Richard Laverence Pemberton The Barnes, Hawthorn Tower. Bookplate..The "Baroness de Calabrella" (c. 1788 – 6 October 1856, Paris) was an English socialite, journalist, and writer. By the 1840s, she had purchased a newspaper named the Court Journal,[8] which covered mostly society matters. The paper had been losing money, and it continued to do so under several editors she hired to run it. One of the editors, Jocquim Hayward Stocqueler, wrote of her, "...the baroness was tall and of a rather elegant figure. She must have been decidedly handsome in her youth; care, and a certain sense of dignity, had imparted a severe and melacholy expression to her features; but her manners were gentle and ladylike."[9] He also recounted her friendship with the Countess of Blessington and her mortification when the Court Journal gave one of Blessington's novels a bad review. She wrote novels and short stories, and published a book on etiquette that went through a number of American editions. Her stories appeared in a number of gift books edited by her friend the Countess of Blessington, and she edited or wrote several such works herself. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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