"The Blessing" 1951 MITFORD, Nancy (SOLD) Velvet Jacket artwork by "Fenwick"

Jacket artwork by "Fenwick"

Iconic magazine of the French fashion house

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

illustrated boards

Delightful estate aerial rendering by society artist

"The Blessing" 1951 MITFORD, Nancy (SOLD) Velvet Jacket artwork by "Fenwick"MITFORD, 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