Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Maria Edgeworth

Verlag: Baldwin and Cradock 1832-33, London, 1832

Beschreibung

A collection of the stories of Maria Edgeworth. Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 22 May 1849) was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. With frontispieces and engraved title pages to each volume. Comprising Volume IV and V (Popular Tales I and II) and volumes VI, VII, VIII, IX, and X (Volumes I-V of Fashionable Life). Both Popular Tales and Tales of Fashionable Life are complete in themselves. Tales of Fashionable Life (1809 and 1812) is a 2-series collection of short stories which often focus on the life of a woman. Seven volumes of eighteen only. In half-calf bindings. Externally sound, though rubbed. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bookplates to front pastedowns. Ink signatures to contents pages. Pages are bright and mainly clean, though with some scattered light foxing throughout, and tidemarks to first few pages of volume V. Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers SET25-F-1

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Tales and Novels by Maria Edgeworth

Verlag: Baldwin and Cradock 1832-33, London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1832

Einband: Leather

Illustrator: None

Zustand: Good

Art des Buches: book