First edition, first printing. iv, 150pp, with black and white line drawings and page decorations. Black publisher's cloth-covered boards, title label on front panel. Beautifully bright and decorated endpapers. 8vo. Cloth is worn and marked, rubbed and rounded at corners and spine ends. Previous owner's inscription on half title page else internally neat, clean, bright and tight.
Joan Penelope Cope, later Lady Grant, was twelve when she wrote these memoirs, an enterprise triggered by the imminent loss of her family's ancestral home, Bramshill House, in Hampshire. Never intended for publication, the memoirs were however met with international acclaim, with critics praising Cope's literary skills and artistic merit. In series of delightful stories, Cope vividly recalls her youth at Bramshill.
