Evelina: or, The History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World
by Fanny Burney (Hugh Thomson, illust; Austin Dobson, intro)
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- good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- Good
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Brattleboro, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
1/2 dark green calf leather over blue and white cloth with single gilt ruled lines; spine is dark brown leather with 5 raised bands, 6 panels - title panel in red with gilt letters, other panels with central fleuron and floral spandrels; date in gilt at spine tail; top edge gilt; blue and white (faux?) marbled end papers; small printed statement on front free end paper obverse 'Bound by Birdsall | for Charles Scribner's Sons'; tissue-guarded frontispiece. Clean covers and spine; slight age darkening of cover cloth at edges; lower fore corner leather is rubbed with boards just exposed; light rubbing wear at spine ends - slightly abraded at spine head; slight rubbing wear at spine/cover joints but joints remain firm and supple; tightly bound; owner signed name 'Christopher Lasch' (noted author and historian, Univ Iowa, Northwestern Univ & Univ Rochester) on front free end paper; light foxing on few prelim pages; bright, clean interior. 12mo, 477 pp; illustrated.
Synopsis
Evelina or the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World is a novel written by English author Frances Burney and first published in 1778. In this epistolary novel in three volumes, Evelina, the title character, is the unacknowledged daughter of a dissipated English aristocrat. Her dubious birth has seen her raised in rural seclusion until her seventeenth year.
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- Bookseller
- Madden Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- M00452
- Title
- Evelina: or, The History of a Young Ladys Entrance into the World
- Author
- Fanny Burney (Hugh Thomson, illust; Austin Dobson, intro)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Illustrated Edition
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd
- Date Published
- 1920
- Keywords
- BINDINGS, FINE PRINTINGS, PRESSES, LEATHER, CALF, BIRDSALL, MACMILLAN, SCRIBNERS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction, Literature;
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Madden Books
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Brattleboro, Vermont
About Madden Books
I am a book collector and seller with many years experience. My particular areas of interest are politics, history, law, economics, labor and sociology. I also collect and sell Vermont and New England books, pamphlets, ephemera and magazines. I have a large selection of mysteries and detective books. I have general stock of literature, sciences, arts, world and regional politics & history.
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- Calf
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- 12mo
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
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- Spine
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