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Mrs George Wemyss [Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens]
Mary Constance Elphinstone Lutyens (1868-1951) married a rich army officer named George Wemyss in 1890 and wrote novels and chidren's stories under his name. She was the eldest daughter of 14 children but had none of her own. Her brother was the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens.
Bibliography code: NCL-18.2
Edition: First, thus
Series: Nelson's Continental Library 72
Publisher: T. Nelson & Sons, 189, rue Saint-Jacques, Paris
Year: [1918]
Format: 16 mo in two gatherings (1-1a=4pp;1a-2=12pp)
Pages: 288
Binding: Printed thin cards wrappers
Size: 164 x 117 mm
Dust jacket signed: BLAMPIED lower right, in chair
Internal illustrations: none
Price: 3 francs on jacket; 2 franc 50 on wrapper
Printed by: Imprimerie Nelson, Édimbourg, Écosse
Dust jacket (click to enlarge)
Notes: I found this copy in a bookshop in Sablons, France, Jaquette très abîmé, avec 1 rabat détaché et l'autre manquant, but I didn't care, it had a jacket that I hadn't seen before. It had survived 100 years.