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Gerschau, Julie de,1870-1887.
Gerschau von Flotow, Bernard,Baron,1853-1911,inscriber.StEdNL
[London] : Printed by Spottiswoode & Co., New-Street Square, London,
1888.
A fictionalised and incomplete account of the life of Mary Queen of Scots by a Russian aristocrat of German ancestry, privately published after her death.
Preface by author's father, Baron Gerschau, who also seems to have acted as editor.
Mounted photograph of author as frontispiece, with "Loulou Gershaw" written in manuscript underneath, and copy of a drawing of "Mary Stuart after a drawing by the author", inserted after page [100].
Inscribed on the recto of the front free end-paper, "Presented to Miss Coles / by the Author's Father, / Baron Gerschau / Turin 1888".
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
England London.