![]() Holly’s interest in the Regency period came while in high school and she volunteered to re-shelve returned books at the community library. ![]() Her first book won first place in the University of Texas at Dallas fiction writing competition and was first runner-up for the Rita award from Romance Writers of America. Crushed, for several years she stopped writing, but the writing bug didn’t go away. Holly decided to be a writer when she was in the fifth grade and filled notebooks with stories-until a mean-spirited high school teacher told her she had no talent for writing. She lives in Florida seven miles from the Gulf Coast with Ken and their six cats. Holly Newman is a pseudonym for Holly Thompson. But every time they pull one mystery thread free, another appears, for seemingly everyone has a hidden agenda-including the Duchess! Thrown together when he’s mistaken for his cousin, Miles and Ann join to unravel the house party mysteries. ![]() The only rational person at the house party was Miss Ann Hallowell, the Duchess’s granddaughter, and as his luck would have it, his cousin’s intended! He was supposed to be in London preparing for the spring opening of the Royal Academy of Art, yet here he was, a stand-in guest for his injured cousin, Viscount Redinger. Miles Wingate, the Duke of Ellinbourne, was not supposed to be at the Dowager Duchess of Malmsby’s house party. V, 636.What happens when a Duke is mistaken for a Viscount-on purpose?Īdd that to two Michelangelo sketches, hidden passages, vanishing and reappearing art, threatening messages, conniving art collectors, arrogant academicians, a Bow Street agent, a lovelorn couple, and an elderly prankster. in the royal library of France, especially of those which coincide with the editio princeps." (Dibdin, Classics, 1827 Vol. Printed by Barbou, and called by Harwood 'one of the most beautiful and correct of all his classics.' The text is from Ernesti's first edition, but it contains the readings of some MSS. The scan shows the spines & front cover of volume 3. Overall, a well-preserved set by a famous printer, and from the collection of one the great English book collectors. Some scattered tan spotting to page margins. A few other penciled bookseller's notes are present in volume 1. Ellis Wall, and each has a later printed book label, pasted to the marbled paper paste-downs. Heber at the top of the first blank flyleaf Volume 1 has the engraved, heraldic bookplate of Wm. (Collat: & perf) : From the library of Richard Heber w. Notes in pencil on reverse of marbled endpaper and facing flyleaf in volume 1: : E. Vellum spine on Volume 1, and the covers on volumes 2 & 3 show some age-related gray spotting to the vellum. ![]() + III.) with covers double-ruled in blue ink blue sprinkled edges, headbands, light blue silk bookmarkers bound in blue and red marbled paper endpapers. Bound in full vellum with gilt bordered, blue leather title labels on the spines, gilt lettered: TACITUS AP BARBOU TOM. Volume 3: half-title engraved frontispiece of Roman figures (Eisen/Lempereur) title-page -456 + page J. including notes & index, small Eisen/Lempereur engraving at top of p. Volume 2: half-title engraved frontispiece of classical Roman figures (Eisen/Lempereur) title-page, -480 pp. ![]() Lempereur, engraver) xxiv, -444 pp., including notes & index, small Eisen/Lempereur engraving at top of p. x 6 ¼ in Volume 1: engraved frontispiece of Tacitus (Ch. ![]()
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