hester lynch thrale piozzi (39 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Fine hardcover in near fine slipcase with very light wear and fading. Original Sandglass pamphlet laid in, slightly tanned and one corner creased.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Some slight damage from dampness, old bookplate removed with associated damage to the ffep.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good+. Fine hardcover in very good+ slipcase with very light wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Gilt is complete and bold. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine Slipcase. First Edition Thus. Binding is square, tight, and solid. Gilt is complete and bold. Pages are unmarked, crisp, clean, and not bent. Heritage Club insert "Sandglass" (Number S28) present and in fine condition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First American Edition. Ix, 218 Pp. Purple Cloth, Paper Spine Label Printed In Purple. Stated First Printing, American Issue With Sheets Printed In Great Britain. Book Is Near Fine, Light Rubbing To Corners And Bottom Edges, Hinge Lightly Cracked Before Title Page. Dj Browned, One Large Chip3 1/4" X 5/8" Across Rear Panel, Small Chips At Corners.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Edition Or Printing Stated. Usual Library Markings. First Free Endpaper Has Been Removed From Each Volume. No Slipcase.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 2 only. Beautifully bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt decoration. All edges gilt. Bookplate of former owner in the prelims. Pages are clean.

Hardcovers. Condizione: Fine. 3 VOLUMES IN SUPERB CONDITION. SOLID & VERY CLEAN, NO MARKINGS. BROWN CLOTH WITH ORNATE PAPER LABELS AT TOP OF SPINE . VOL 1, FRONTIS OF JOHNSON. 466 PAGES. VOL II FRONTIS OF BOSWELL, 486 PAGES. VOL III,FONTIS OF HESTER THRALE PIOZZI 473 PAGES. GEMS ! OVERSIZE FOR SHIPPING, PLEASE CONTACT SELLER BEFORE ORDERING IN ORDER TO GET AN ACCURATE COST OF POSTAGE. SCANS ON REQUEST. THANKS.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First Edition. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1932. First edition. xii,274pp. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and three plates. Original maroon cloth, gilt lettering, edges untrimmed. A very good copy in a used dustwrapper (latter with some edgewear - more noticeably to foot of spine, wth loss to some letters of imprint, two neat internal repairs, otherwise in very good condition, in removable protective plastic sleeve).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Volume 3 only. Bound in beautiful full leather with raised bands on the spine, gilt decoration, ribbon bookmark, all edges gilt. Shows minor wear.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust jacket. Later Edition. ISBN . B000GRHYZ6 Hardback; three volume set in slipcases. Book club edition of 1791 original plus notes. Each volume with very slight wear to corners and edges; very slight dust soiling to spines; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good to Near Fine condition. Slipcases have slight wear to corners and edges. No Signature.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Heritage Press edition. 3 volume set, complete. A Fine set in Fine slipcases. 4to., illustrated. Tan cloth, housed in three publisher's tan slipcases. The Heritage newsletter, SANDGLASS, laid in. A Fine set in Fine slipcases.

HardBack. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. The Heritage Press Set, Complete in Three Volumes. Royal 4to. Colour portrait frontispieces. Set appears unopened and unread, very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscription or marks of any kind, free from foxing or browning, crisp fresh corners and edges. Bound in very good bright gilt lettered and illustrated brown cloth boards with red labels. Housed and protected in such great condition by original brown marbled slipcases.

Linen. Condizione: New. Condizione sovraccoperta: New. Illustrated (illustratore). First Thus. New York: The Heritage Press, 1963. First thus. Three volumes. Brown linen bindings in slipcases. A beautiful large-paper edition in marble slipcase. New in new slipcases.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Thomas Rowlandson (illustratore). Limited Edition. Bloomfield, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Limited edition, #1295/2000, NF/(slipcase)NF. Book has some light wear to spine, slipcase has some wear to bottom and on one flap of top. Book is bound in 18th century style, with a three-quarter binding of top-grain cowhide with French marbled paper sides, titling on spine stamped in gold leaf, t.e.g. Illustrated with 10 satirical colored prints, originally engraved by Johnson's contemporary, Thomas Rowlandson, plus end-paper map, ribbon bookmark. Journal are daily entries of their tour from August 15 - November 11, 1773. Includes the monthly letter of the L.E.C. (laid-in) and six appendices at the end of the journal. Considered a classic of travel writing, a volume of love and deep respect by Johnson's closest friend. Nice copy.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. Limited Edition. Number 1920 of 2000 copies. Large octavo bound in red leather and marbled paper covered boards in slipcase. This edition follows the text of the third edition published in 1786 and reproduces notes made by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi in the margins of her copy of the second edition. Color illustrations; endpaper maps. As new condition in as new slipcase. Pages: xxviii, 327.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Sir Joshua Reynolds (Twenty-Seven Portraits in Collotype from Paintings) (illustratore). First Edition. :: Memoirs of Hester Lynch Salusbury (b.1741), British diarist, author, patron of the arts, and friend to English writer Samuel Johnson. She married to Henry Thrale (1763) and then married a second time to Gabriel Piozzi (an Italian musician). :: Lovely, tipped-in collotype portraits from paintings by Sir Joshua Reynolds. :: Bound in green and brown leather & blue marbled paper-covered boards with gilt detailing. Partial title and date lettered in gold upon decorated, hubbed spine. Deckled fore-edge, top edge of textblock gilt. Octavo (8 1/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 205 x 140 millimeters). 336 pages. Condition: Very Good-. Leather corners quite rubbed, leather cracked and flaking along hinges, top front hinge beginning to split. Wear upon spine. Small stains, some fading. Pages age-toned.

1 vols. 8vo. First edition. First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. When almost eighty Mrs. Piozzi apparently ?took a great fancy to a handsome young actor, William Augustus Conway and it was reported that she proposed to marry him.? (DNB) These letters were perportedly by her. Whether they were or not "The Preface" was considered slighting and damaging to her reputation. Original printed wrappers, publisher's advertisements on back. Spine and edges frayed, some light browning and soiling, mostly marginal, else a good copy of this unusual piece.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Irish Edition. First Irish edition, following the London edition released the same year (Pine-Coffin 784.5). Rebound in quarter linen with new end sheets, modern owner bookplate on front endpaper, faintly foxed throughout. 1789 Hard Cover. vii, [1], 592 pp. 8vo. An 18th century travelogue based on the author's Grand Tour, which was originally published in two volumes in London in 1789. Piozzi was born Hester Lynch Salusbury and previously married to brewer Henry Thrale. She was a member of one of the wealthiest Welsh families of the time, though poor investments led to her father's bankruptcy, which compelled her to marry Thrale. Through the use of his fortune, she became a prominent patron of the arts, and known for her diaries and letters, which would later become an important scholarly source for those studying Samuel Johnson (she met Johnson after becoming a member of London society, the two traveled together, and Johnson wrote her two pieces of verse). She also published a volume about Johnson entitled Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson in 1786.

Two volumes, 8vo, pp. vii, [i], 437; [ii], 389, [1] blank, [6] advertisements; an attractive copy in contemporary tree calf, spines prettily gilt with red and green morocco labels (joints well and soundly repaired not invisibly, but sympathetically). First edition of this well-known travel book by Hester Thrale, who had become Mrs Piozzi in 1784 and spent much of the intervening time travelling on the continent. Rothschild 1551. Provenance. 19th century armorial bookplates of Humphrey St John Mildmay.

First edition. 2 vols, 8vo, contemporary red half calf, blue paper boards, marbled endpapers, green leather spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. Six pages of publisherís advertisements in volume two. In 1784 Hester Lynch Thrale (1741-1821), the famous friend and confidante of Samuel Johnson, married an Italian musician, Gabriel Mario Piozzi, and they soon set off for Europe, where they traveled for three years, which she artfully chronicled in one of the most entertaining accounts of the Grand Tour. Written in an informal conversational style, Observations and Reflections is ìalive with present-tense immediacy, to erode the barriers between diary and travel narrative. Her delight in Piozzi and in Italy was everywhere apparent in the materials she included in this development of the genre, which subverted masculine tropes of the grand tourist as disillusioned and hard to pleaseî ñ ODNB. Piozziís work became a model for other women travel writers and a source for authors like Ann Radcliffe in her novel The Mysteries of Udolpho. Bookplate of Charles Langton Massingberd on the front paste-downs, below which is the bookplate of American author Larry McMurtry. This is a duplicate from his collection of books by women travelers. Edges and boards a little rubbed and worn; light foxing to the prelims; very good copy. ESTC T71718; Rothschild 1551; Pine-Coffin 784-5; Robinson, Wayward Women, page 243.

Condizione: Very good plus. First Edition. First edition, inscribed presentation copy from the author, of this best-selling work with correspondence between two major figures of 18th-century British letters. Hester Lynch Piozzi is best known in British literature as Mrs. Thrale because it was during her first marriage (to Henry Thrale) that she became famous for her friendship with Samuel Johnson, author of the 1755 DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. After Johnson's death and her second marriage, Piozzi published two books relating to their celebrated friendship: ANECDOTES OF THE LATE SAMUEL JOHNSON (1786) and the present work. Both were immediate bestsellers, selling out their runs immediately and heading into multiple editions, becoming the talk of literary London: the Shakespearean critic Edmond Malone recorded of LETTERS that "I sat up till four o'clock reading away as hard as I could, and then my candle went out and I could read no more." The letters were still frequently read and discussed even thirty years later, as in Jane Austen's 1808 letter to her sister Cassandra that references one: "But all this, as my dear Mrs. Piozzi says, is flight & fancy & nonsense." This collection contains many of Johnson's letters to Piozzi (then Thrale) from 1765 to 1784, as well as more than two dozen of her own letters to Johnson. Educated British women like Piozzi were often highly accomplished in the epistolary form, and Piozzi's examples here are no exception: one letter of advice to a young man upon his marriage became a contemporary favorite, earning special acclaim and frequent reprinting in anthologies of literary letters. Volume II further includes poetry that Piozzi composed for Johnson, or that they composed together in idle hours. Presentation copies are exceptionally scarce. Two octavo volumes, 7.75'' x 4.75'' each. Contemporary full speckled calf, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, tan morocco spine labels, gilt rules. [2], 397, [1]; xii, 424 pages. Ink inscription, "Mr. Lambart / given him by his friend / the Authoress in two Vols." Additional owner name of Hamilton Lambart, in pencil and ink, in each volume respectively. Boards a touch dry, rather rubbed at fore-edges; a few light stains to edges. Interior fairly clean.

Condizione: Very good. First Edition. First edition of "the first world history ever written by [a British] woman" (William McCarthy, 211). An evocative, philosophical, and narrative-driven history, RETROSPECTION took an experimental approach to the genre, attempting to cure it of its stuffiness. Panned by one contemporary critic as "History cooked up in a novel form reduced to light reading for boarding school misses, and loungers at a watering place," these are the exact reasons the book is interesting to us today. In fact, the modern scholar William McCarthy calls it "a work of great daring in every way" (210). It covers the first century CE to the year 1800, relying upon sources ancient (Livy, the Bible) and modern (Gibbon, Hume), all buttressed by Piozzi's famous breezy charm. An eccentric tour de force and an unsophisticated copy, quite difficult to obtain without repairs to the joints or spine. Two quarto volumes, 10'' x 8.25'' each. Contemporary half calf, blue paste-paper boards, raised bands, gilt-stamped spines, red goatskin spine labels. Speckled edges. Engraved frontispiece portrait of the author. Bound without half titles and eight-page publisher's catalogue; with the four-page proposals for maps. xvi, 17-461, [1]; pages. Some rubbing to bindings; frontispiece faintly foxed. Firm.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Two volumes, octavo; size of bindings: 5 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 1 1/2 in. (thick), Volume 1: half-title; titlepage: [i]-viii, [1]-423 pp.; Volume 2: titlepage: [i-ii], [1]-416 pp. Bound in old, mottled calf, with the mottled calf spines replaced in the 19th century: featuring brown morocco leather title labels, gilt-lettered: BRITISH SYNONYMY, and each with gilt volume numbers: I + II, with gilt bands across spines, and designs in compartments, gilt borders on cover edges; headbands present, edges stained light yellow. With early, engraved, heraldic bookplate (griffin & lion) of W. G. Coesvelt, on front paste-downs, and another, more recent, printed book label beneath this in both volumes, small inked number in upper right-hand corner of the facing flyleaves. Spine of volume two shows some chipping away of the leather surface along the side, some light wear, rubbing to leather spine ends, lower cover corners (corners show early leather repairs; inner hinges are starting. Some tan spotting to endpapers, page margins, a few small marginal tears to leaves. A much better and cleaner set than is usually available. The scan shows the spines and front cover to volume two. Weight: 3 lbs. Contains some anecdotes regarding Samuel Johnson.

vii, [i], 592 pp. 8vo. First Dublin edition. First Dublin edition. vii, [i], 592 pp. 8vo. First Dublin edition (published the same year as the London edition) of the account of the newlywed Mrs. Piozzi's tour of the continent with her husband. Her "first work not to fall under the long shadow of Johnson, she built upon previous experimentation by using an authoritative but conversational discourse, alive with present-tense immediacy, to erode the barriers between diary and travel narrative. Her delight in Piozzi and in Italy was everywhere apparent in the materials she included in this development of the genre, which subverted masculine tropes of the grand tourist as disillusioned and hard to please" (ODNB). Her descriptions of Italy were a source for Ann Radcliffe's MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO. Contemporary tree calf, with early re-backing. Front board detached. Bookplate.

First edition. First edition. viii, 306, [1, Postscript], [1] pp., without errata slip. 8vo. Mrs. Piozzi's first book, a "a candid and generically ground-breaking biography, which sold out on the first day of publication . endorsed by modern criticism, which sees her as anticipating Boswellian biographical innovation (his Life of Johnson was published in 1791) while supplying an irreverent corrective" (ODNB). Rothschild 1549; Courtney & Smith, p. 161 ("Several of Johnson's verses were first printed in this volume") Contemporary quarter calf and marbled boards, worn. Front cover detached along with front free endpaper and half-title. Small stains to title and following few leaves at top margin. Rest of contents clean viii, 306, [1, Postscript], [1] pp., without errata slip. 8vo.

First edition, 8vo, pp. 39; orig. printed brown wrappers; upper wrap loose, minor staining and edge wear; contained in a quarter blue morocco slipcase. When almost eighty Mrs. Piozzi apparently ìtook a great fancy to a handsome young actor, William Augustus Conway and it was reported that she proposed to marry him (DNB). The letters, however, are of doubtful origin but the Preface was considered slighting and damaging to her reputation.