The Great Illegitimates!! 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; Being Mother of the [...]

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Full title: The Great Illegitimates!! 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; Being Mother of the Earl of Munster – Col. Lord Frederic Fitzclarence – Lord Augustus Fitzclarence – Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, R.N Lady Sophia Sydney – Lady Mary Fox – Countess of Errol – Lady Kennedy Erskine, and Lady Falkland. Delineating The Vicissitudes attendant on her Early Life; The Splendor of her Noon-tide Blaze, as Mistress of the Royal Duke; and her untimely Dissolution at St. 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. Embellished by portraits of the Fitzclarence family. 8vo. pp. 266. Signatures: [A]2 B5 C-Z6. One of two copies in this collection, this one in boards, with catalogue of Duncombe’s publications bound in at end. 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. The last was ill-requited in this work, that was published ca. 1832 according to British Museum, General Catalogue of Printed Books. London, 1962, Vol. 119, p. 38. Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.