Original green tweed cloth on boards. DJ spine chipped top and bottom, and design by George Wilde. Pictorial endpapers. Previous owner's name. Novel based on the life of Condesa de Mendoza, a Spanish Gypsy who went to England in 1860 to set up an estate. Instead, she collected a husband 20 years younger, a house with a rooftop telescope, and a daughter who gets kissed by the Prince of Wales. 271 pp.

NOISBN Historical Fiction