Quarto. [6], 96pp. Contemporary gilt-tooled half-vellum, blue cloth boards, gilt supralibros to upper board, A.E.G. A trifle marked and discoloured. Marbled endpapers, occasional spotting. Inked inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf: 'To Blanche Hoggarth / from Spencer 1907 / I send this little memoir of my dearest / wife by her brother Frederick Seymour'.

The sole edition of Frederick Seymour's succinct biography of his sister Charlotte Frances Frederica Seymour, Countess Spencer (1835-1903), an active philanthropist, notable for her involvement with the Ladies Diocesan Association, an exclusive aristocratic organisation devoted to assisting the poverty-stricken residents of London, and the Parochial Mission- Women Association focused on providing resources to parishes located in the East End. The present copy is inscribed by Lady Spencer's husband John Poyntz Spencer, fifth Earl Spencer (1835-1910), Liberal politician, friend of Prime Minster Gladstone, and twice Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

COPAC records copies at four locations (BL, Manchester, NT, and Oxford); OCLC ones one further copy (Michigan).