Fanny Burney ( Madame D'Arblay ) [ English Men of Letters ]
by Dobson, Austin
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
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Bluffton, South Carolina, United States
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About This Item
NY: Macmillan, 1903. First Edition . Hardcover. VG+. 1st American edition, a title in the English Men of Letters Series, edited by John Morley, with the EML logo in gilt on front cover. This title on Burney seems to be the first biography of a woman writer in this series; a "new volume" list appended lists George Eliot. 12mo, black cloth, top edge gilt, 216 pages, [2] pages publisher ads. VERY GOOD+ condition: gentle rubbing to spine extremities, a lovely engraved owner bookplate on front paste-down with another owner name in pencil, internally clean and tight. A very nice copy. Frances Burney, 1752-1840, diarist, novelist and letter-writer... [The bookplate owner is Ruth Mary Sabin, listed in Lemperly's "A List of Book-plates Engraved in Copper" (1899)]
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- Bookseller
- Bygone Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 17012
- Title
- Fanny Burney ( Madame D'Arblay ) [ English Men of Letters ]
- Author
- Dobson, Austin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- LITERARY BIOGRAPHY HISTORY GREAT BRITAIN FRANCES BURNEY ENGLISH LITERATURE WOMEN WRITERS Literary History / Literary Criticism
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary Biography / Letters; Women Writers;
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- Paste-down
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- Cloth
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Good+
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- Top Edge Gilt
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- First Edition
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