The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany. With interesting reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte. Edited by the Right Honourable Lady Llanover. Three Volumes, First Series, & Second Series, Three Volumes.

"The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany, with interesting reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte," edited by the Right Honourable Lady Llanover. Published in London by Richard Bentley in 1861, this complete three-volume set includes the First and Second Series and offers an engaging glimpse into eighteenth-century British society, royal life, correspondence, and the world surrounding the court of George III and Queen Charlotte.

Octavo. Bound in three-quarter brown calf with elaborate gilt-decorated spine compartments between five raised bands, with one maroon and one green label. Matching marbled covers, endpapers, pastedowns, and page edges. Rounded and bumped corners, with some chipping at the crowns of the spines and fading at the feet. Each volume bears a detailed bookplate on the front pastedown, including the bookplate of Hyde Dewey Hogg of Cadiz, Ohio. Volume III contains a large folding genealogical chart displaying the pedigree of the Granville family at the front.

A handsome complete set for collectors of Mary Delany, Georgian and British history, royal correspondence, genealogy, and nineteenth-century antiquarian books.