aka mrs hoffland (5 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Undated but circa 1830. 176pp, with extra title page and engraved frontispiece. Quarter bound in red leather over marbled boards, gilt lettering on spine. 16mo. Covers heavily worn, rubbed all round edges and spine, spine leather scuffed at tips, rubbed and rounded on corners. Previous owner's name neatly inked on front free endpaper. Gutter cracked and gaping between frontispiece and extra title page. Slightly foxed throughout.

Softcover. Condizione: Very Good. 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.

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.

Softcover. 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. 12mo. Rubbed, a little soiled 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.