Caroline Matilda, Queen; Chapman, Hester W.

CAROLINE MATILDA: Queen of Denmark 1751-75.

Pp. 222(last blank), frontispiece portrait, plus 8 plates, bibliography, index; demy 8vo; grey boards, spine lettered in gilt; top edges purple; dust wrapper, faintly soiled; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Jonathan Cape, London, 1971. First edition. *Biography of the posthumous child of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, and the sister of George III. Betrothed to the King of Denmark, Christian VII, when she arrived in Copenhagen 'she discovered her diminutive husband to be a lunatic, a drunkard and a debauchee' [wrapper blurb]. Item #179812

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