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Queens of Beauty and Their Romances.

Being a study of Woman-kind and Society.

Complete in 2-volumes.

FIRST EDITION / FIRST PRINTING!!

Printed in 1907.

This First Edition is over 200 Years old!!

ILLUSTRATED with numerous Engravings. 

Bound in the high quality, moroccan leather bindings, top edges gilded, marbled endpapers. 

From the introduction:

"The lives of the eight-and-twenty women whom I 

have selected cover a period of two hundred years, 

and afford a study both of woman-kind and of Society 

under a variety of conditions. I have tried to show 

how the gift of beauty affected the characters and the 

careers of its possessors — what use they made of 

their gift and what fate it brought them. Diverse, 

indeed, were both. But one immutable law Nature 

seems to have laid down — that a woman dowered with 

beauty must not expect happiness. I have also noted 

that goodness of some sort, has seldom been wanting 

as an impressive and dominating feature in the 

characters of the greatest Queens of Beauty. "

London, 1907. 

By  W. Willmott Dixon.

8 5/8 inches.tall

VERY GOOD Condition throughout. Leather is supple and the hinges are sound. No writing. Complete in 2-volumes. 

Contains numerous portraits:

WITH TWO PHOTOGRAVURE PLATES AND TWENTY-FOUR 
OTHER FULL-PAGE PORTRAITS