Gladstone Catherine (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. X-Library book. Typical library markings. Ships promptly from Texas. 100% Money-Back Guarantee!!!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Charta, 2009 1st Very good -.

No Binding. Condition: VG. No place, no date, sized 4.5 x 7 inches, 2-pages, folded, the back page of which is attached to cardstock, 12 lines, to a Mr. Miller, asking if he would come to Carlton House the following day, signed "Yours truly / Cath Gladstone.". Inscribed by Author(s).

Size of image 9 3/4 x 7 inches, laid down on the original mount, 14 1/8 x 9 3/4 inches overall. Barraud's name stamped on mount. From Barraud's series "Men and Women of the Day". Some marking to mount.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original lime green cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered gilt back and front. 8vo. 9'' x 6¼''. Contains 204 pp with 6 full-page single-sided monochrome illustrations throughout. Spotting to the closed text block edges and end papers. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition Eugene Hastain illustrated dust wrapper with rubbing to the spine ends and corners, spine slightly age darkened, price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. BIO (Résumé, Memoir).

London Hospital, Whitechapel Road, 20 July 1887[?]/ Catherine Glynne Gladstone, née Catherine Glynne (6 January 1812 14 June 1900) was the wife of British Prime Minister William Gladstone for 59 years, until his death in 1898. She was the daughter of Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet of Hawarden Castle, who died when she was only three. Her brother Stephen succeeded to the baronetcy in 1815. It was through her brother, who represented Flint as a Liberal MP, that Catherine met William Gladstone. They were married on 25 July 1839 and lived at her ancestral home Hawarden Castle, in Flintshire, North Wales. She was buried next to her late husband in Westminster Abbey.

See her entry in the Oxford DNB, where she is described as a 'philanthropist'. 2pp, 12mo. With mourning border. A 4cm triangle of paper has torn away from the bottom of the letter, far below Mrs Gladstone's slightly-smudged signature, otherwise in good condition, lightly aged and folded twice. Reads: 'Downing St. / Saturday / Dear Sir. / You have often encourage me to appeal to you upon matters of charity. it will be very kind if you will give the enclosed [a] place in your Paper. / Yours truly / Cath Gladstone'.

Two pages, 12mo, bifolium, good condition. Text: "I am really touched by yr. contribution & hope soon to see Miss Mary Wardell & to put our heads together regards the project of a Home for Scarlet Fever Convalescent Patients. - The gift from the two Servants & the old house delights me[.] [I]f such subscriptions were common, we should have very little difficulty in raising money.[.][Postscript] I will [?] note to Miss Wardell & send you my photograph." Note: "The Mary Wardell Convalescent Home for Scarlet Fever was officially opened on 14th July 1884 by the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by their three daughters, Louise, Victoria and Maud. The Princess of Wales agreed to become the Home's Patroness.".

First Edition. By her daughter. Pp. xii+300, frontispiece portrait with tissue guard, plus 19 plates, full page genealogical table, index; demy 8vo; dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, boards lightly worn, the spine slightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers lightly offset, hinge tender near centre, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; Nisbet & Co. Ltd., London, 1919. First edition. *Inscribed on the upper free endpaper verso 'To Countess Granville from H. J. Gladstone in remembrance of old days, December 1919'. Catherine Gladstone (nee Glynne) was the wife of British statesman William Ewart Gladstone. Their youngest son, Herbert John Gladstone (1854-1930), was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South Africa from 1910 to 1914. At the time of this inscription, the Countess Granville was Nina Ayesha Baring (1876-1955), daughter of British diplomat Walter Baring. She married Granville Leveson-Gower, the elder son of Wiliam Ewart Gladstone's closest political ally, in 1900.