Public and private life of that celebrated actress, Miss Bland, otherwise Mrs. Ford, or, Mrs. Jordan; Late Mistress of H.R.H. the D. of Clarence; now King William IV., Founder of the Fitzclarence Family [...]

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Full title: Public and private life of that celebrated actress, Miss Bland, otherwise Mrs. Ford, or, Mrs. Jordan; Late Mistress of H.R.H. the D. of Clarence; now King William IV., Founder of the Fitzclarence Family; Delineating The Vicissitudes attendant on her Early Life; The Splendour of her Noon-tide Blaze, as Mistress of the Royal Duke; and her untimely Dissolution at Saint. Cloud, near Paris,– resulting from a Broken Heart. Accompanied by numerous remarks and anecdotes of illustrious and Fashionable Characters. By a confidential friend of the departed. 8vo. pp. 117. Signatures: [A]8 B-G8 H3. Cloth, with booklabel and notes of G. Hilder Libbis, and indexed and extra-illustrated by him. Handwritten index tipped in back. One illustration removed from volume. The item is available in MS 580 in Special Collections (Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University). Abridged reprint of The Great Illegitimates (see Bib# 4103265/Fr# 542 in this collection for the original), a rare biography of the one-time patroness of the Shakespeare forger William Henry Ireland (1775-1835), Mrs Jordan, the star actress and long-term mistress of William IV, probably published in 1832. The British Library Catalogue dates the present work 1886. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4103266" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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Public and private life of that celebrated actress, Miss Bland, otherwise Mrs. Ford, or, Mrs. Jordan; Late Mistress of H.R.H. the D. of Clarence; now King William IV., Founder of the Fitzclarence Family [...]
William Henry Ireland | J. Duncombe | [1886?]
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