Original Letters from Richard Baxter.Alexander Pope.Samuel Johnson.Rev John Newton.with Biographical Illustrations.

WARNER, REBECCA [EDITOR].

Verlag: Bath Richard Cruttwell, 1817

Beschreibung

8vo, pp viii, 303, [1, advert], uncut, slightly later binders' cloth with printed paper label, this a little chipped, slight fading to the spine, a very good clean sound copy,FIRST EDITION, a vaulable colletcion of original literary correspondence from the Eighteenth Century asumed to have bene in the posession of Rebecca Warner ' Of Beech Cottage near Bath', sister of the popular Bath writer Richard Warner, to whom several of the letters are addressed. The original of the collection and Warner's editorship has intrigued commentators since publication, the biographical contributiosn being very sparse, With an intriguing female ownership lable of Eliza Newton, with an earlier presentation to her as Eliza M Cottle, by her aunt G C Self. Though we have not found a definate link it seems likely that this is the fmaily of the Bristol publisher of the Lyrical Ballads, Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 29868

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Titel: Original Letters from Richard ...

Verlag: Bath Richard Cruttwell

Erscheinungsdatum: 1817

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage