The Reign of Queen Anne

McCarthy (Justin).    Harper & Brothers, New York and London, 1902 First American Edition  Two volumes   Very nice copy. The DEDICATION COPY: the printed dedication is to the author’s daughter, Charlotte. Beneath it the author has written a Latin inscription which translates as “Alas! how much less sweet it is to converse with others, than to dwell on the bare contemplation of their virtues”  Justin McCarthy, M.P., novelist and historian, d. 1912. 

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