Title: The Great Illegitimates!! 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; Being Mother of the [...]
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Full title:</b> The Great Illegitimates!! 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; Being Mother of the Earl of Munster – Col. Lord Frederic Fitzclarence – Lord Augustus Fitzclarence – Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, R.N Lady Sophia Sydney – Lady Mary Fox – Countess of Errol – Lady Kennedy Erskine, and Lady Falkland. Delineating The Vicissitudes attendant on her Early Life; The Splendor of her Noon-tide Blaze, as Mistress of the Royal Duke; and her untimely Dissolution at St. 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. Embellished by portraits of the Fitzclarence family. </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. 266. Signatures: [A]2 B5 C-Z6. One of two copies in this collection, this one in boards, with catalogue of Duncombe’s publications bound in at end.</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;">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. The last was ill-requited in this work, that was published ca. 1832 according to British Museum, General Catalogue of Printed Books. London, 1962, Vol. 119, p. 38.</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_4103265" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>