OUIDA [Marie Louise de la Ramée]
Cecil Castlemaine's Gage; or, The Story of a Broidered Shield
"Cecil Castlemaine was the beauty of her county and her line..."
“Cecil Castlemaine was the beauty of her county and her line … The Town had run mad after her, and her face levelled politics, and was cited admiringly by the Whigs at St James’s as by the Tories at the Cocoa-tree; by the beaux and Mohocks at Garraway’s as by the alumni at the Grecian, by the wits at Will’s as by the fops at Ozinda’s.”
Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage was first published in 1867.
Ownership inscription “Major Gibsone. 73rd.” and with “Gibsone” written in ink on on lower edge of textblock. Major Gibsone was a soldier in the 73rd Highland Regiment of foot (the Perthshires). See Keltie, John Scott, A history of the Scottish Highlands, Highland clans and Highland regiments (1875).
A couple of bumps to top edge of upper board; some marking to boards, rear hinge cracked, otherwise in very good condition.
