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Loukomski, Georges.
Charles Cameron (1740-1812).
Publisher: Nicholson & Watson - the Commodore Press, London;
Date of Publication: 1943
Stock Code: 5730
FIRST EDITION; Number 126 in a LIMITED EDITION of only 200 copies SIGNED by Princess Romanovsky-Pavlovsky (author of the Foreword). Quarto, pp 102. Illustrated throughout including 28 full-page illustrations and plans. Blue half morocco bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with 4 raised bands. Gilt titles to spine and top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Upper corners a little bruised and head of spine lightly scuffed otherwise a very clean copy indeed. Signature of Mary Romanovsky-Pavlovsky in blue ink to foot of her Foreword; no further annotation or inscriptions. A study of Cameron’s work designing palaces and gardens in Imperial Russia for Catherine the Great in the late eighteenth century. Translated into English and edited by Nicholas de Gren with Foreword by Princess Romanovsky-Pavlovsky and Introduction by Prof D Talbot Rice. Born Lady Mary Lygon to the Earl and Countess Beauchamp at Madresfield Court, she married into the Russian Imperial family in 1939 becoming the Princess Romanovsky-Pavlovsky, and reverting back to her original name following her divorce. A great friend of Evelyn Waugh, she inspired his character Lady Julia Flyte in “Brideshead Revisited”. Rare in the Signed Limited Edition. £175.00