Memorials, Part I Family and Personal, 1766-1865: Part II. Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne Antiquarian & Scholarly

Palmer, Roundell, Earl of Selborne, [1812-1895]. Memorials, Part I Family and Personal, 1766-1855. [together with] Part II Personal and Political 1854-1890. Edinburgh: R. & R. Clark, 1889, 1892. Together 2 volumes. ix, 436; x, 634 pp. Original red cloth with gilt stamped spines. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore-edges. Worn, rubbed and faded. Previous owner's signature "Mary Henrietta Palmer" to front endleaf of volume one. Previous owner's inscription "Lucy Dorothea Palmer/ August 1893" and second previous owner's inscription "[Clemency Roundell?]/ 1960" to front endleaf of volume two. Third previous owner's signature " Mary D. Waldegrave" to title page of volume two. Internally clean. A good set. $450. * Privately printed in an edition of 50 copies. Mary Henrietta Palmer, [1872-?], was a niece of Roundell Palmer, as a daughter of his brother Archdeacon Edwin Palmer. Lucy Dorothea Palmer, [1873-?], was a niece of Roundell Palmer, as a daughter of his brother Archdeacon Edwin Palmer. Mary D[orothea] Waldegrave, (aka Mary "May" Dorothea Palmer), [1850-1933], was a daughter of Roundell Palmer and his wife, Laura, a daughter of the 8th Earl Waldegrave. Mary Waldegrave was appointed a citation for her work as Deputy President of the Somerset branch of the British Red Cross Society during World War I. (https://ancestors.familysearch.org/en/KJPK-2GM/archdeacon-edwin-palme r-1824-1895).