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BLESSINGTON-D'ORSAY, A MASQUERADE.
Sadleir, Michael.

- London : Folio Society, The 1983 - large 8vo. - quarter cloth, decorated paper-covered boards, top edge stained light green, paper-covered slipcase. - Frontispiece; 305, (3) pages. - Order Nr. 53307 - Price: $ 7.00

First edition thus. Biography, first published in 1933, of Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Blessington (1789-1849), born to a family of impoverished Irish gentry as Margaret Power, who after early disasters became Lady Blessington and acquired notoriety as the mistress of the dandy and artist, Alfred Comte d'Orsay, became a well-known writer herself, and died impoverished in France, having lost all to creditors in England. With 19 reproductions of contemporary illustrations, including the portrait by Lawrence. Spine slightly faded.

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