SIEGE-LADY. The Adventures of Mrs. Dorothy Procter of Entre Quintas and of Divers Other Notable Persons During the Siege of Oporto and the War of the Two Brothers in Portugal, 1832-1834.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in the C. P. Hawkes illustrated dustwrapper. Illustrated endpapers, six full-page illustrations and smaller chapter heading and in-text illustrations by C. P. Hawkes. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with minor bumping at he spine tips. The contents are clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is chipped with loss to the upper right and with a short closed tear to the upper left of the front panel. The lower left of the rear panel with a moisture stain and some bleed from the cloth. Not price-clipped. Not price clipped (8/6 net to the front flap). A scarce title.

Inscribed by Charles Pascoe Hawkes in blue ink on the half title "To Cecily Burnaly-Atkins / from / the Author / 52 Bayham Road / Sevenoaks". A novel based on the letters of Dorothy Procter, who was part of a British party of wine makers besieged in their factory in Oporto, one of the focal points of fighting during the Portuguese Civil War from 1828-34.