Browne Wilkinson Virginia (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited SIGNED First Edition. RARE Signed, Limited Edition of this story of the Pepperrell saga, "seen for the first time through British eyes". Copy Number 57 of 1000. Written 1964-1981 for Mary Theresa Caroline Brown-Wilkinson (1890-1978). The story "begins with the arrival in America at the end of the 17th century, of the first of the four William Pepperrells, an illiterate fisherman who became a great merchant and landowner". 220 pages, illustrated, including with fold-out family trees. Minor edge wear, light rub marks. NUMBERED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR. Book.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Limited Edition: No. 32/1000. Hard cover, octavo (measuring 5 1/4 x 8 1/5 inches), in red cloth with gold title to spine, 220pp. Includes 2 fold-out geneological charts, original paper wraps bound in, index and bibliography. Signed and inscribed by Author on limitation page. Number 32/1000. Copies were made available directly from the Author at an address in Florence, Italy. This history uses original correspondence and photographic reproductions to highlight rthe significant achievements of the earliest generations of William Pepperrells to arrive from England to America in the seventeenth century, originally settling at the Isles of Shoals off the Maine/New Hampshire coast, (then part of Massachusetts).The book's British author, historian Victoria Brown-Wilkinson offers a British perspective on the colonial period. Discussed are William Pepperell I (1648-1734); William Pepperell II ,"The Victor of Louisbourg" (1696-1759) , a key battle prior to the War for Independence; and William Pepperell III (b.1746). Signed and inscribed by author. Book.…