Language: English
Published by Hamish Hamilton Ltd, London, 1977
ISBN 10: 0241895324 ISBN 13: 9780241895320
Seller: The Print Room, Cockernhoe nr Luton, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Luba Litwak (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some small scratches to front jacket, not price clipped (£5.95), no inscriptions, inyernally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy. 268pp, illustrated. A life of the scandalous, beautiful, wildly romantic Jane Digby el-Mezrab, Lady Ellenborough (1807-1881). She had four husbands, many children and many lovers, including King Ludwig I of Bavaria, his son King Otto of Greece, statesman Felix Schwarzenberg, and a Greek brigand general Christodoulos Hatzipetros. She died in Damascus, Syria, as the wife of Arab Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab, who was 20 years her junior.