MRS HOFFLAND (11 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. Frontispiece (illustratore). First American Edition. Heavily embossed tan cloth with gold print on spine. Embossing is ornate edgings around oval space. Water spots across upper third of front cover.Yellow end papers Very light pencil gift note on blank page between inner front flyleaf and frontispiece page pencil, on inside flyleaf.t issue guard at title page. Sound and unmarked. 183 pag.

2nd edition. Very good for age, 1/2 leather, moderate wear, tight & clean.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. [ii], ii, [iv], 184 pages + 12 plates each with two images on them. Pages are heavily spotted, stained and browned throughout. In the original paper covered boards and leather spine. the boards are darkened and worn, the printing on them is scarcely visible. Some sections of text are coming loose and the page edges are worn. Ink presentation inscription to the rear of the frontispiece - Catherine Ann Dearlove the gift of Lady Anna Maria Jessup, 20th August 1824. The book is dated but two of the plates are dated 1821. In poor condition throughout. Book.

16 cm, no year, appr. (1821).[2], ii, [4], 184 pp, title vignette, half boards.Inscription to flyleaf. Paper darkened and aged. Illustrated with 10 lvs copper engravings, each leaf contains two pictures. Rare. OCLC:559839443.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. 1-vi, 10-60pp. Printed card covers (covers worn, a little spotting and curled at corners, original price struck through with manuscript amendment from 8d to a shilling). Internally just a little spotting, few signs of fingering and a bumped corner. Originally published in 1811, this little volume, a verse guide to Harrogate for visitors, went through various reprints in the early 1800s. Inspired by the enormously successful New Bath Guide (1766), it is similar to A Week in Harrogate, also perhaps attributable to Mrs Hoffland, but includes an advertisement by Mrs Hoffland. Perhaps commissioned by the Harrogate printer Hargrove in the first instance, it contains a good puff piece for his shop in Harrogate. Small 12mo.

First Edition. Fair condition with wear and some foxing and staining. Barbara Hofland (1770 - 4 November 1844) was an English writer of some 66 didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. She was asked by John Soane to write a description of his still extant museum in London's Lincoln's Inn Fields. Life Born Barbara Wreaks or Wreakes, her father Robert Wreakes was a Sheffield manufacturer, but he died when she was three and she was raised by a maiden aunt. She began writing for the local paper and started a milliner's shop, but she sold it when she married the businessman Thomas Bradshawe Hoole in 1796, only to be widowed two years later with an infant son.[1] She went to live with her mother-in-law in Attercliffe, and supported herself partly from generous subscriptions given for a book of her poetry.[2] In 1809 she opened a girls' boarding school at Grove House, Harrogate and developed it as a ladies' finishing school, a forerunner to what is now Harrogate College[citation needed], but she kept it only until 1811, when she moved to London. In 1810 Barbara Wreaks married the landscape artist Thomas Christopher Hofland (1777-1843). Although her new husband had a good local reputation and had exhibited at the Royal Academy, his wife's writings were to remain the main source of family income. In 1816 she was living in Newman Street, north of Oxford Street,[3] but they moved to Twickenham that year. Her son Frederic, an Anglican priest, predeceased her in 1832, as did her husband in 1843. She died on 4 November 1844 and was buried at Richmond, Surrey.[1][4][5][6] Her life by Thomas Ramsay was published in 1849.[7] Writings During her writing life, Hofland became a friend of the architect John Soane, who asked her to provide a description of his museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields,[8] and of the writers Maria Edgeworth and Mary Russell Mitford. Her first story, The History of an Officer's Widow (1809), earned her £6 from John Harris, a London publisher. One of her many popular books (as Mrs. Hofland) was The Blind Farmer and His Children (1816). Her most popular children's book was The Son of a Genius, about an impulsive artist, which may contain autobiographical elements. It had been reprinted at least 14 times in England by 1841, as well as nine times in America, and in translations into French and other languages. Most of her works depict the struggles of a Christian family against hardships.[5] Hofland's Tales of the Priory (1820), Tales of the Manor (1822) and Self-Denial (1835) can be read online,[9] as can The Young Crusoe (1828),[10] and a number of others.[11] She also wrote geographical and topographical books for teaching purposes, and a longer work in verse: A Season at Harrogate (1812).[12] Hofland wrote a description and a poem on Whiteknights Park, the seat of the 5th Duke of Marlborough. The text, the drawings and etchings by her husband and the money they invested in publishing and printing were never reimbursed by the "profligate" duke.[13].

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Black & white engraving frontispiece. Book is firm and largely clean but with a light damp stain to lower fore edge of frontispiece page. Other light finger or foxing marks to some page edges. The boards have general wear and lack some sections of paper pastedown covering. Leather spine with some scuffs and wear to top.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition following first publication in the preceding year. 274pp. Full calf's leather binding with gilded rules and decoration, four- panelled, decorated spine with black spine label and gilt lettering. Marbled text block edges and endpapers. 12mo. Boards a tad worn at edges, dry around spine joints and backstrip a little faded. Strong binding and internally neat, clean and tidy barring the occasional small, mild mark. A very good, small volume. Publishers' records indicate that the first edition ran to a 1,000 copies, and this second edition a year later to 500 copies (Butts, p. 75). Barbara Hofland, nee Wreaks, the daughter of a Sheffield manufacturer was raised by a maiden aunt before marrying T Bradshawe Hoole, a local merchant. Upon his early death she published a volume of poems which attracted over 2000 subscribers ? enabling her to open a boarding-school in Harrogate. With her second husband, the painter Thomas Hofland, she moved to London and began publishing novels, including a series representing the moral virtues: Integrity, Patience, Self-Denial, Humility, Energy, Fortitude, and this one, Decision. She was a popular author of the early 19th century although many of her books are now hard to find in contemporary editions.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 4th Edition. Stated fourth edition, not dated but likely c. 1820. viii, 9-64pp. Printed card covers, stitched binding. Vignettes on front cover and title page. (Card covers worn and rubbed, especially at edges, chipped along spine, slightly discoloured, with remnants of bookseller's ticket). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a hint of toning; short, flat crease on corner of title page and similar on last page, and the very occasional small mark. This series of verse epistles, from BxxJxMxN BlxxDExHxxD to his friend SxMxN (Benjamin Blunderhead to Simon), was first published by Hargrove and Sons in Harrogate in 1812. It is similar to Mrs Hofland's 'A Season at Harrogate', also first published in 1812, and is attributed to Mrs Hofland in Halkett and Laing. Although Hargrove did ask Mrs Hofland for a verse guide to Harrogate, partly to puff up his shop in the town, her letters show that she was unhappy about the payment and her book was eventually published by G Wilson with a signed preface by Mrs Hofland. It is possible Hargrove commissioned the work elsewhere. The North Yorkshire County Library holds a copy of 'A Week in Harrogate' with a pencilled attribution to a local writer, David Lewis (See Butts, Mistress of our Tears, 9 and p. 100).

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 3rd Edition. Stated third edition, 1818. viii, 9-98pp [2]. Printed card boards. With woodcut vignettes and colophon of Hargrove Printers (rubbed, a little soild rounded at corners, chipped at edges, backstrip chipped away with replacement spine label, front board partially detached). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight barring a few hints of toning; and the occasional mark). This series of verse epistles, from BxxJxMxN BlxxDExHxxD to his friend SxMxN (Benjamin Blunderhead to Simon), was first published by Hargrove and Sons in Harrogate in 1812. It is similar to Mrs Hofland's 'A Season at Harrogate', also first published in 1812, and is attributed to Mrs Hofland in Halkett and Laing. Although Hargrove did ask Mrs Hofland for a verse guide to Harrogate, partly to puff up his shop in the town, her letters show that she was unhappy about the payment and her book was eventually published by G Wilson with a signed preface by Mrs Hofland. It is possible Hargrove commissioned the work elsewhere. The North Yorkshire County Library holds a copy of 'A Week in Harrogate' with a pencilled attribution to a local writer, David Lewis (See Butts, Mistress of our Tears, 9 and p. 100). Scarce. Small 12mo.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. [1821]. 1st edition. [vi], 184pp plus 11 pages of beautiful hand-coloured engravings, two images each per page. Woodcut vignette on front board and title page. The frontispiece is absent. Quarter bound in decorated leather over card (boards are heavily rubbed and in places chipped at edges and joints, worn, lightly scuffed in places, soiled and faded but still strong with firm binding). Internally a little toning, especially on title page and occasional marks and foxing. Overall in good condition. Barbara Hofland (or Hoffland), nee Wreaks, the daughter of a Sheffield manufacturer, was raised by a maiden aunt before marrying T. Bradshawe Hoole, a local merchant. Upon his early death she published a volume of poems which attracted over 2000 subscribers ? enabling her to open a boarding-school in Harrogate. With her second husband, the painter Thomas Hofland, she moved to London and began publishing novels, including a series representing the moral virtues: Integrity, Patience, Self-Denial, Humility, Energy, Fortitude, and Decision. She was a popular author of the early 19th century although many of her books are now hard to find in contemporary editions. Although CBEL dates the first edition as 1815, no copy of that date is known, and the gap between that date and reprinting of what was evidently a popular work, suggests that other authorities are right in choosing 1821 as the date of the first edition, on the authority of the English Catalogue of Books 1801-1836, and the fact that two of the book's plates are clearly dated 20 August 1820 (Butts, p. 71).