"The Blessing" 1951 MITFORD, Nancy (SOLD) Velvet This limited edition consists of

This limited edition consists of 5

illustrated boards

the historic and prestigious Belgian luxury jeweler and silversmith house (Maison Altenloh) founded in Brussels in 1878

where he changed his studies from architecture to art

Delightful estate aerial rendering by society artist

"The Blessing" 1951 MITFORD, Nancy (SOLD) Velvet This limited edition consists ofMITFORD, Nancy [305] pp. Random House 1951 8 1 4" x 5 3 4" Jacket design by Cecil Beaton VG VG With characteristically amusing malice, Mitford blends a comedy of manners with culture shock as Grace Allingham, a naive English rose, impulsively marries Charles Edouard de Valhubert, a French nobleman with all his class's charm and decadence. Both are duped, however, by their son Sigismund the Blessing of the title a juvenile Machiavelli who mixes Gallic