PRESENTATION COPY
SMITH, Albert.
Marguerite de Bourgogne. A Tradition of ancient Paris …
London: Richard Bentley … 1845.
8vo, pp. [4], [61]–175, [1], with a half-title; some scattered foxing, but a very good copy in the original blind-stamped purple cloth, spine and edges sunned; authorial presentation inscription to title-page to ‘Miss Laura Addison’, and the phrase ‘For private Circulation’ added in manuscript.
First separate edition, printed for private circulation and very rare, comprising a portion (though complete in itself) of Smith’s three-decker The Adventures [or Fortunes] of the Scattergood Family (1845), with a new half-title and title-page.
Laura Addison is presumably the actress of that name who made her stage debut in 1843, played opposite Macready and Kean, and died suddenly in America in 1852.
Not in Library Hub; OCLC locates four copies: Huntington, UC Santa Barbara, Louisville; and Queensland.
