17th Sep, 2024 10:00

The September Auctions 2024

 
Lot 62
 

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[de la Riviere Manley, (Mary)] Secret Memoirs

[de la Riviere Manley, (Mary)] Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean, London: John Morphew, 1709, 8vo, later 18th century panelled calf with raised bands, Second Edition, engraved frontispiece to volume 2, ink annotations to some pages upper margin seemingly identifying the actual subjects of the discourse

Provenance:

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Footnote:

Mary de la Riviere Manley (1663-1724) was a British writer who achieved notoriety through presenting political scandal in the form of romance. Her Secret Memoirs . . . of Several Persons of Quality (1709) was a chronicle seeking to expose the private vices of Whig ministers. After its publication she was arrested for libel but escaped punishment. Her cousin John Manley married her bigamously in about 1688. In 1711 she succeeded Jonathan Swift as editor of The Examiner.

THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

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Sold for £130


 

[de la Riviere Manley, (Mary)] Secret Memoirs and Manners of Several Persons of Quality of Both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediteranean, London: John Morphew, 1709, 8vo, later 18th century panelled calf with raised bands, Second Edition, engraved frontispiece to volume 2, ink annotations to some pages upper margin seemingly identifying the actual subjects of the discourse

Ombersley Court, Worcestershire

Mary de la Riviere Manley (1663-1724) was a British writer who achieved notoriety through presenting political scandal in the form of romance. Her Secret Memoirs . . . of Several Persons of Quality (1709) was a chronicle seeking to expose the private vices of Whig ministers. After its publication she was arrested for libel but escaped punishment. Her cousin John Manley married her bigamously in about 1688. In 1711 she succeeded Jonathan Swift as editor of The Examiner.


THE OMBERSLEY COURT LIBRARY

Chorley’s Auctioneers is to offer The Ombersley Court Library collected by the English aristocratic family of Sandys across five centuries.

Proceeds of the sale will will be donated to the Hartlebury Castle Preservation Trust (Charity 1127871).

Hartlebury Castle is a historic Worcestershire estate first given to Bishop Aelhun in 855AD. Home of the Bishops of Worcester until 2007. it has a longstanding connection with the Sandys family throughout its history.

READ THE STORY

Volume 1 lacking frontispiece, both volumes hinges cracked, volume 1 with decorative gilt tooled spine and red title block, volume 2 rebound en suite with plain spine and hand lettered '2' to spine. Endpapers browned and spotted. Scattered foxing, not collated

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