Princess Marie Henrietta Adelaide of Liechtenstein — Holland House

London, Macmillan and Co, 1874. First edition. Leather. An extra-illustrated example of first edition of Marie Fox's brilliant history of Holland House, her own family own, in sumptuous signed bindings by Bayntun Riviere. The first edition of this work, complete in two volumes bound in crushed morocco by Bayntun-Riviere.A beautiful study of Holland House and its impressive art collection.An extra-illustrated example of this work:Volume I illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured vignette title page, eight further hand coloured portrait plates and fifty two further plates, one of which is folding.Volume II illustrated with a hand-coloured frontispiece, hand-coloured vignette title page, nine further hand coloured plates, and fifty-seven further plates, five of which are folding.The majority of these extra plates are portraits and views of houses.Holland House, originally called Cope Castle, was an early Jacobean country house in Kensington, first built in 1605. In the nineteenth century, during the author's residence at Holland House, the House was a notable gathering place for Whigs.Sadly the house was largely destroyed during the Blitz in 1940. This work provides a unique and important history of the great house before its destruction.With the armorial bookplate of J. F. D. Tutt to each front pastedown.Marie Fox, the Princess Marie of Liechtenstein, was an English writer, a foundling of unknown paternity. She was adopted by Henry Fox and his wife, and subsequently moved into their family home at Holland House. In signed crushed morocco bindings, with gilt detailing. Boards exceptionally bright. Back strips age toned, as is common with blue morocco. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally bright and generally clean, with only the odd spot or faint handling mark. Near Fine . Ill.: Various. Near Fine .