[Rarebooks] FS: Burke's Heraldic Illustrations (Vol II) with Maud Lee Flood bookplate

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FS: Burke’s Heraldic Illustrations (Vol II) with Maud Lee Flood bookplate

Burke, Heraldic Illustrations with Explanatory Pedigrees. London: Edward
Curton, 1845. 9 ¾ x 7 inches, ¾ dark brown fine leather with five raised
bands, gilt spine titles and rulings, fine marbled boards and endpapers. VOL
II ONLY. The engraved bookplate of San Francisco socialite and benefactor,
Maud Lee Flood, is affixed to the front pastedown. The bookplate depicts
Linden Towers, Menlo California.

Frontis engraving of the heraldic device of the Most Noble Hugh Perry, Duck
of Northumberland, Knight of the Garter. Folding plate and engraved plates
of heraldic devices LIV-CIII (54-103) complete and intact.

This book is in better then very good condition. The original binding is
sound and has some edgewear, with one corner tip rubbed through. There is
slight discoloration to thin strips along marbled paper edges from contact
with or proximity to leather. Several pages have short underlines or
marginal notes in pencil. Very light toning to a few page edges.

Very scarce, especially in the original binding in such excellent condition.

James Leary Flood was the son of James Clair Flood, a saloon keeper who
part-owned the Nevada Comstock Lode with William S. O'Brian. Maud Lee
(Fritz) married James Leary Flood after the death of his first wife, Rose,
who was also Maud’s sister. Maud, whose husband died in the late 1920s,
deeded the Flood mansion to the nuns of the Sacred Heart who turned the
building into a school, now called the Convent of the Sacred Heart, in 1938.
Maud then lived in the penthouse suite at San Francisco’s Fairmont Hotel
until her death in 1966.

The “Linden Towers” of the bookplate represent the Menlo Park estate of
James Clair Flood, built and furnished to lavish proportions with his
Comstock fortune. It passed down through the family. Following the death of
James L. Flood, the estate was apportioned to heirs including one Constance
May Gavin, whose suit as a daughter of James L. was recognized by the court.
The furnishings were dispersed, and the mansion (known locally as The White
Castle) was torn down in 1934.

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