[Rarebooks] fa: LADY DE LANCEY - A WEEK AT WATERLOO IN 1815 - Stikeman Morocco Binding

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Auction ending Sunday, November 14. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Magdalene De Lancey; Major R.B. Ward (ed.): A Week at Waterloo in 1815: Lady De Lancey's Narrative: Being an account of how she nursed her husband, Colonel Sir William Howe de Lancey, Quartermaster-General of the Army, mortally wounded in the great battle. New York: E.P. Duttton, 1906. Small 4to (20.5 cm) in blue half morocco and marbled boards by Stikeman & Co. (for Scribners), marbled endpapers, top page edges gilt; 1366 pp.; with a frontispiece and illustrations.

Binding with sunning to the spine, rubbing to the joints and corners; contents with scattered foxing, as often, else clean and sound. Inscription to the front free-endpaper: "Caroline D. Phillips from Miss Kelly Hewitt, March 30th 1923, Washington D.C." Caroline Phillips, the daughter of James Drayton and Charlotte Augusta Astor, was the "well-traveled and well-read" wife of the American diplomat William Phillips, who served under both Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, as well as Woodrow Wilson, and saw high-level service during World War II as ambassador to Italy, personal representative of FDR in India, special advisor to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, etc. A serious bibliophile, Caroline established an extensive and well-appointed library at "Highover," the Italianate mansion she and her husband built in North Beverly, Mass., on an estate designed by Frederick Law Olmstead. The house burned to the ground in 1968.