Lives of the most eminent literary and scientific men of italy, spain, and portugal

[SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft]

Verlag: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835-37, London

Beschreibung

In three volumes. xlvii, [1], 312, 15pp, [1]; [4], 394; vi, 353pp, [1]. With engraved title pages. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. A trifle rubbed and marked. Spotting to titles, remnants of label to FEP of Vol. I, seemingly that of a Women's book club. William St Clair's copy, with pencilled bibliographical note in his distinctive hand to FEP of Vol. I. The sole edition, in original state, of volumes 86-88 of Dionysius Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopaedia', with contributions from Sir David Brewster, James Montgomery and most notably Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her contributions, numbering at least six and possibly more, include biographies of Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pulci, Monti and the sixteenth-century Neapolitan female poet Vittoria Colonna. The Lives have recently been the subject of literary study, with Greg Kucich suggesting that 'although Mary Shelley acknowledges Samuel Johnson's biographical emphasis on "character'.her own biographical method more specifically approximates her era's modes of feminist historiography in its sustained and fundamental attention to the life of the heart's social and domestic relations.' ('Mary Shelley's Lives and the Reengendering of History', Mary Shelley in her times. 2000. p.206). William St Clair (1937-2021), British scholar and senior civil servant, notable as the author of The Godwins and the Shelleys, The Biography of a Family (1989) and The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period (2004). Size: 8vo. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers AQ27613

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Lives of the most eminent literary and ...

Verlag: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835-37, London

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: First edition.