Memoirs of the countess de genlis, illustrative of the history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
London.
Henry Colburn, 1825.
First edition in English.
8vo.
In two volumes. vii, [1], 324; [4], 300pp. With an engraved portrait frontispiece to Vol. I. Uncut in original publisher's two-tone paper boards, printed paper lettering-pieces. Rubbed, surface loss to spines, loss to lettering-pieces, some splitting to joints, a trifle marked. Spotting to endpapers, offsetting to Vol. I title, else internally clean and crisp.
The first edition in English, in original state, of the first two volumes of French novelist and children's author Stephanie Felicite, Comtesse de Genlis' (1746-1830) memoirs. The work was continued with six further volumes in 1826.
£ 100.00
Antiquates Ref: 20632
