Gell (Hon. Mrs. Lyttleton) The More Excellent Way: Words of ...

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Gell (Hon. Mrs. Lyttleton) The More Excellent Way: Words of the Wise on the Life of Love, a Sequence of Meditations, London, Henry Frowde, n. d. [1898] 12mo, xiv + 301pp, 2 colour printed illus., lacks front flyleaf, grey pastedowns, gilt embossed decorative teal boards, gilt titles, spine sl. dirty; Khayyam (Omar), trans. FitzGerald (Edward, 1809-1883), illus. Robert Stewart Sherriffs, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, introduction Laurence Housman, London, Collins, new edn., 1947, roy. 8vo, 221pp, colour printed frontis and 12 other illus., repair inside from board, bound pink cloth. Gilt and black titles and to spiner (externally sl. faded).(2) ***Hon. Mrs Lyttleton Gell is a local author. Born at Peper Harow, Surrey in 1860, she was a daughter of Wiliam Brodrick 8th Viscount Midleton, and sister of the notable Conservative cabinet minister, Rt. Hon. William, 1st Earl of Midleton PC. In July 1889 she married Philip Lyttleton Gell (1852-1926) of Gate House, Wirksworth, but later moved to Gell’s ancestral home nearby, Hopton Hall, when her husband managed to buy it back from the Chandos-Pole Gell family. She was a prolific published writer, and presided over numerous good Works in both Wirksworth, Hopton and Carsington. She died without issue in 1944.