Memoirs of Maria, Countess díAlva: being neither novel nor romance, but appertaining to both. Interspersed with historic facts & comic incidents; In the Course of which are introduced, Fragments & Circumstances, Not Altogether Inapplicable to the events of thIS Distracted Age, And to the Measures of the Fore-sighted Defenders of our holy faith. In Two Volumes. By Priscilla Parlante. 

(GEN) The NUC gives her maiden names as Jeffreys, and she appears to have been married to George Frederick Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath, before becoming the Hon. Mrs. Cavendish-Bradshaw. In 1796 Nugent brought an action for damages against Augustus Cavendish-Bradshaw for adultery with Mary Ann, Countess of Westmeath, an account of which was published in Dublin in 1796.||(CON) Vol I; [-]1, A7, B-Bb8, Contents. [-]1r Half-title, verso blank; Engraved plate; A1r Title, verso blank; A2rv Preface; A3r-A7v Dedication (ìTo The Man In The Moonî); B1r-S6v Text; Engraved plate; S7r-Bb8v Text.Vol II; [A]2, B-Hh8, Ii7, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; Engraved plate; [A]2r Title, verso blank; B1r-Ii7v Text.||(REF) Not in Block; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 410; Garside, Raven, and Schˆwerling, 1808:36; The British Museum Catalogue lists one other work by ìPriscilla Parlante,î Ferdinand and Ordella, a Russian story, 1810; Two copies only in the NUC (DLC, C);||(BIN) Contemporary half roan, marbled boards, heraldic stamp on spines of a muzzled bear under a coronet, gilt lettering. 

2v. 8vo.