[Rarebooks] FS: Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach Written by Herself - 1826 Edition

[Joslin Hall Books & Ephemera]

Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach. Written by Herself.

By Elizabeth Craven.
Published in London by Henry Colburn in 1826.

“Elizabeth, Princess Berkeley, sometimes unofficially styled  
Margravine of Brandenburg-Ansbach (nee Lady Elizabeth Berkeley;  
1750—1828), previously Elizabeth Craven, Baroness Craven, of Hamstead  
Marshall, was an author and playwright, perhaps best known for her  
travelogues. Elizabeth Berkeley was born in Mayfair, London, the third  
child of the Augustus Berkeley, 4th Earl of Berkeley and his wife,  
Elizabeth Drax, daughter of Henry Drax and Elizabeth Ernle. Her life  
was full of scandal: on 30 May 1767, "much against her will at the age  
of sixteen," she was married to William Craven, 6th Baron Craven.  
After thirteen years of marriage, seven children, and affairs reported  
on both sides, the couple parted permanently in 1780. She had an  
affair with Charles Greville sometime in late 1783. Thereafter she  
lived in France and traveled extensively on the Continent. For a  
number of years she maintained a romantic relationship with Charles  
Alexander, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach. During her years at the  
Ansbach court, Craven formed an amateur theatre at court, which  
counted the composer Maria Theresia von Ahlefeldt among its members.  
William Craven died in Lausanne on 26 September 1791, and Elizabeth  
and Alexander then married in Lisbon and settled in England. Early in  
her literary career she wrote a number of light farces, pantomimes,  
and fables, some of which were performed in London. She knew Samuel  
Johnson and James Boswell, and became a close friend of Horace  
Walpole, who published her early works” [Wikipedia]. Her most famous  
work today is her important 1789 travelogue, “A journey through the  
Crimea to Constantinople”.

Two hardcover volumes. 6x9, viii + 430 and vii +406 pages, each volume  
with an engraved frontispiece. In the original board covers with  
hand-lettered cloth spines, in what some might call “marvelously  
unsophisticated condition”, and what others might call “more or less  
completely wrecked”. Volume 1 is battered, tattered and stained, the  
spine cloth hanging off in strips, and the binding itself separated in  
several places. Volume 2 lacks the front board but has a binding still  
tightly sewn; the rear board is also battered and stained, and the  
spine cloth darkened and cracked. Aside from the fact that they are  
falling out of Volume 1, the pages are not bad, with nice wide margins  
and a little age-toning and scattered wear and soil. With the private  
library bookplate of Wm E. & Lucie H. Hoblitzelle, and a part of a  
printed plate with names and addresses whose purpose isn’t quite  
clear, in Volume 1.  $50, plus $4 shipping.

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