{"product_id":"noble-and-gentle-men-of-england-shirley-1859-first-edition","title":"The Noble and Gentle Men of England — Evelyn Philip Shirley | 1859 First Edition | Charles Gresley of Lichfield's Copy | Armorial Bookplate","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e      A gentleman of an ancient house, looking up his own family.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_chunkWrapper_yu34g_39\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote class=\"ml-2 border-l-4 border-[hsl(var(--border-300)\/0.1)] pl-4 text-text-300\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eIn 1859 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eEvelyn Philip Shirley \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epublished his attempt to set \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003edown, county by county, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe arms and descents \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eof every ancient \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eknightly and gentle house \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003estill surviving in England \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e— those established \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebefore the sixteenth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecentury, traced in the male \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eline, still holding their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eground. It was a serious \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epiece of Victorian \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eantiquarian labour and it remains a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003estandard reference.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThis \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecopy belonged to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eCharles Gresley, Esquire, of Lichfield\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e. We know because his armorial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebookplate is pasted inside the front \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eboard, encircled with the words \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eLiber Caroli Gresley Armigeri de Lichfield A.D. 1854\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e — the book of Charles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eGresley, Esquire, of Lichfield.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eWhich means that when this book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003earrived, he could turn to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eDerbyshire pages and find his own \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efamily waiting for him.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe Shirley connection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e Pasted \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebeneath the bookplate, in Gresley's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ehand, is the single word \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eFrom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e — and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebelow it a cut fragment of a letter in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eShirley's own writing, ending \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003emy dear sir, very sincerely yours\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ewith his full signature. Gresley kept \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe proof of who gave him the book and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003estuck it in the front. We should be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eprecise: this is a pasted letter \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efragment, not an inscription written \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003einto the volume. What it strongly \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esuggests is a gift from one antiquary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eto another; what it certainly is, is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eShirley's autograph, preserved on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epurpose.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eTipped in at the preface \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eis a newspaper cutting reporting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eShirley's death — of Eatington Park, in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ehis seventy-first year, sometime Member \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efor Monaghan and afterwards for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esouthern division of Warwickshire, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eretired from the Commons in 1865, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eauthor of this book and of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe Shirleys of Eatington\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e. A further \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efolded cutting about the Baronetage \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003esits loose, pencil-dated 1898. Both \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epostdate Shirley's death in 1882, so \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eeither Gresley lived on and kept \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efeeding his book, or a later owner \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecarried on the habit. We can't tell you \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ewhich, but somebody cared about this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003evolume for a very long time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eA word about the Gresleys\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ename on the bookplate belongs to one of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe oldest families in England — and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eone of the more quietly extraordinary.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe Gresleys were Norman. Domesday \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003erecorded Nigel de Stafford holding the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003emanor of Drakelowe in Derbyshire \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etowards the close of the eleventh \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecentury, and his descendants held it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efor nine hundred years — as long as any \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efamily in England is said to have owned \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe same patch of ground. They took \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etheir surname from Castle Gresley, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efounded a priory nearby before the year \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e1200, and in 1611 were granted a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebaronetcy that was the sixth oldest in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe whole of Britain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThey were \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003enot, however, a family much given to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecaution. Sir Nigel Gresley, the sixth \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebaronet, went to sea with the Royal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eNavy at a tender age, made lieutenant, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ewas invalided out with rheumatism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003einherited Drakelow and Knypersley, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ediscovered he was sitting on coal, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ein 1775 got an Act of Parliament \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethrough to dig his own canal — which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethen held a monopoly on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eNewcastle-under-Lyme coal for forty-two \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eyears. His kinsman Sir Roger, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eeighth baronet, went the other way \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eentirely: Christ Church, Oxford without \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etroubling to take a degree, a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecelebrated London dandy, a seat in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eParliament, and a gambling habit that \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eate most of the family fortune and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eobliged him to sell nearly everything \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eto stay solvent. He died at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethirty-seven, and his library went \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eunder the hammer the following spring.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe family motto, chosen long before \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eeither of them, is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eMeliore fide quam fortuna\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e — better in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efaith than in fortune. One suspects it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ewas tested.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eOur Charles belonged to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe Lichfield branch. Richard Gresley \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eof Stowe House, Lichfield, a descendant \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eof the Drakelow Gresleys and a bencher \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eof the Middle Temple, headed that line, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eand his eldest son William became a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eprebendary of Lichfield Cathedral in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e1840. There is a memorial to a Charles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eGresley in the cathedral itself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThere is one more Gresley you will \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecertainly have heard of, even if the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ename means nothing to you. A younger \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebranch had settled at Netherseal, where \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efour successive Gresleys served as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003erector of St Peter's; the last of them, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe Reverend Nigel Gresley, had a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efourth son born in 1876. That son was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eSir Herbert Nigel Gresley, Chief \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eMechanical Engineer of the LNER, who \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003edesigned the Flying Scotsman and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eMallard — which in 1938 hit 126 miles \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eper hour and still holds the world \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003erecord for a steam locomotive. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efamily that turned up in Domesday with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ea plough ended up with the fastest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ething on rails.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eThe last Gresley \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eleft Drakelowe Hall in 1931, after \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003etwenty-eight generations. The house was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epulled down three years later and a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epower station built on the site. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebooks, evidently, got out.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eProvenance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e From the library of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eCharles Gresley, Esquire, of Lichfield\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e, of the Lichfield branch of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eGresleys of Drakelowe, whose armorial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebookplate — \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eLiber Caroli Gresley Armigeri de Lichfield A.D. 1854\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e — identifies him beyond \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003edoubt. Acquired by us at auction as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003epart of a small group of books from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethat library, each carrying his name.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eCondition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003e Handsomely \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ebound in full maroon leather, lettered \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ein gilt direct to both spine and front \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eboard, with gilt ornaments in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecompartments and raised bands. Rubbing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eto the spine ends and board edges, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ecorners lightly worn, a few marks to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe covers. Internally toned with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003escattered foxing and some tide-marking, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eheavier around the tipped-in material. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eSquare, tight and entirely sound — much \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ethe best preserved book we have handled \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003efrom this library.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003ePart of the Gresley Collection. One of a kind — when it's gone, it's gone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003eFree UK delivery. Hand-wrapped in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"_animating_yu34g_10\"\u003estiff card and packing paper.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Novel Relics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56008311406977,"sku":null,"price":225.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0934\/7887\/9617\/files\/IMG_1129.jpg?v=1785596861","url":"https:\/\/www.novelrelics.co.uk\/products\/noble-and-gentle-men-of-england-shirley-1859-first-edition","provider":"Novel Relics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}