12mo. In two volumes. [5], viii-xvi, 262; [2], 299pp, [3]. Without half-titles. Contemporary calf, contrasting red and green morocco lettering-pieces, spines richly gilt. Extremities rubbed. Very occasional chipping/loss to margins, else internally clean and crisp. From the library of the Earls of Lovelace, formerly the Barons King of Ockham, with their armorial bookplates to FEPs, inked ownership inscriptions of William King, and recent ink-stamps of the Ben Damph Forest library.

The collected correspondence of Charlotte-Elisabeth duchesse d'Orléans (1652-1722), the second wife of Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, younger brother of Louis XIV of France. Her extensive and frank letters provide a detailed account of the personalities and activities at the court of her brother-in-law over half a century, from the date of her marriage in 1672.

William King (1805-1893) 8th Baron King, later the 1st Earl of Lovelace, husband of Augusta Ada Lovelace (nee Byron) (1815-1852), pioneering female scientist, computer programmer and the only legitimate child of George Gordon, Lord Byron.