Title: Public and private life of that celebrated actress, Miss Bland, otherwise Mrs. Ford, or, Mrs. Jordan; Late Mistress of H.R.H. the D. of Clarence; now King William IV., Founder of the Fitzclarence Family [...]
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Full title:</b> Public and private life of that celebrated actress, Miss Bland, otherwise Mrs. Ford, or, Mrs. Jordan; Late Mistress of H.R.H. the D. of Clarence; now King William IV., Founder of the Fitzclarence Family; Delineating The Vicissitudes attendant on her Early Life; The Splendour of her Noon-tide Blaze, as Mistress of the Royal Duke; and her untimely Dissolution at Saint. Cloud, near Paris,– resulting from a Broken Heart. Accompanied by numerous remarks and anecdotes of illustrious and Fashionable Characters. By a confidential friend of the departed. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 8vo. pp. 117. Signatures: [A]8 B-G8 H3. Cloth, with booklabel and notes of G. Hilder Libbis, and indexed and extra-illustrated by him. Handwritten index tipped in back. One illustration removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">Abridged reprint of The Great Illegitimates (see Bib# 4103265/Fr# 542 in this collection for the original), a rare biography of the one-time patroness of the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835), Mrs Jordan, the star actress and long-term mistress of William IV, probably published in 1832. The British Library Catalogue dates the present work 1886.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103266" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>