FRANCE IN 1829-30

Morgan, Lady Sydney (Owenson)

Verlag: Saunders and Otley, London, 1831

Beschreibung

8vo. full crushed black morocco, five raised bands, gilt on boards and spine, author and title stamped in second compartment, volume number for both volumes stamped in third compartment, morocco turn-ins, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. xii, 527, (6); iv, 590, (6) pages. Second edition. Bound by Brentano's, Paris, with bookbinder's stamp on front free endpaper. A handful of the plates have been handcolored. Front and rear boards of both volumes have been very professionally rebacked. A small abrasion, with loss, to the head of the spine of volume one. Only the slightest hint of shelfwear. Interior shows some very minor spotting / foxing, with an occasional moisture stain, else an outstanding set with 86 extra-illustrated plataes. Provenance: This set bares the blue morocco monogram bookplate in both volumes of Annie Burr Jennings (1855-1939) on front pastedown with motto "Otium sine literis mors est" (leisure without literature is death). Jennings was a devoted resident of Fairfield, CT, so much so that her philanthropy as well as her social influence in town earned her the title "First Lady of Fairfield." Annie's sister, Emma Brewster Jennings, had a son named Hugh D. Auchincloss whom was the second husband of Janet Lee Bouvier. Bouvier was the mother of First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (wife of President John F. Kennedy). This book is an amusing and eccentric account of a trip to France by this Irish novelist, best known as the author of 'The Wild Irish Girl' and one of the most talked about literary figures of her generation. Irish writer Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan, was one of the most vivid and hotly discussed literary figures during the early nineteenth century. Her observations of France under the Bourbon Restoration were attacked with outrageous fury by John Wilson Croker in the "Quarterly Review," -- accusing her of Jacobinism, falsehood, licentiousness and impiety. She took her revenge with a wicked caricature of him in her novel "Florence Macarthy." full crushed black morocco, five raised bands, gilt on boards and spine, author and title stamped in second compartment, volume number for both volumes stamped in third compartment, morocco turn-ins, marbled pastedowns and endpapers. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 136951

Bibliografische Details

Titel: FRANCE IN 1829-30

Verlag: Saunders and Otley, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1831

Einband: Hardcover