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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is "The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim" by Sophie von La Roche, Translated by Joseph Collyer, and edited by James Lynn. It is a hardcover Issued by New York University Press in 1992, being the First Printing Thus. The text and title page were printed by Billing and Sons in England, sent to the United states, and then distributed by New York University, who placed its label on the title page and thus effectively became the American publisher of this title. The binding and dust-jacket are printed with NYU Press. Sophie von La Roche, a novelist, was the first German woman to make a profession through her published works, She was friends and acquaintances with many renowned writers or her day, including Christoph Martin Wieland (to whom she was once briefly engaged, and who later was to publish her first novel), and Göethe, among others; she was one of the most famous German women in that time. "The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim", her first novel, which was published in 1771, had great success and was quite influential on the romantic writers of the time. In fact this novel was an influence on Göethe, and it could be said that "The Sorrows of Young Werther" (published in 1774) was directly inspired by Sophie von La Roche's novel. Incidentally, she hosted a popular literary salon in her home. From the jacket write-up : |> This novel is Sophie von La Roche's best-known novel. It is also the first novel by a German woman to appear in print. A psychologically intense drama of the struggle of a young country woman to live virtuously in the face of the malevolent intrigues of family, friends, and lovers, it became an icon for young writers of the 'sturm und drang' generation of the late eighteenth century. Schiller and Herder admired it and Goethe wrote "The Sorrows of Young Werther" under its influence. With its message of the triumph of truth and virtue over self-love, this book stands as one of the great works of the Age of Sentiment.<| SERIES : NYU Press Women's Classics TITLE : The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim (Originally published in 1771 as "Geschichte des Fräuleins von Sternheim") AUTHOR : Sophie von La Roche (Sophie von La Roche, nee Gutermann von Gutershofen - 1731 - 1807) TRANSLATOR : Joseph Collyer (d. 1776) EDITOR / INTRODUCTION / CHRONOLOGY, etc : James Lynn IMPRINT : New York University Press (NYU Press) [ Printed by Billing & Sons in London] PLACE : New York DATE : (1992) EDITION : First NYU Press Printing -- First American Edition STATUS : Out of Print - OP (the State University of New York has a different translation available) DETAILS : Trade hardcover; contains an Introduction (which presents a fairly detailed biography, and a Chronology, Notes, and a brief Bibliography; xxxiv +216 pages; 5 3/8" x 8 3/8'; dark green paper-covered boards and spine, with silver-gilt lettering on spine; pictorial dust-jacket. CONDITION -- BOOK : VERY GOOD -- JACKET : VERY GOOD -- This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive, with the following particulars noted : EXTERIOR : Soft impact bumps with accompanying wrinkles to bottom fore-edge corners; modest compression to spine extremities, else clean and presentable with good color. Text-block edges are clean. BINDING : Solid INTERIOR : Clean and free of marking. DUST-JACKET : Crimping (or wrinkling) to head of spine panel, front flap has a crease to the top edge - else jacket is clean and attractive.…

The first edition of this scarce collection of works and letters by Voltaire (1694-1788) in English translation, including his philosophical novella Zadig, excerpts from the Dictionnaire Philosophique, the whole of which was not translated into English until 1765, and the first letter from Frederick II of Prussia to Voltaire and his reply. The translator Joseph Collyer (1714/5-1776) was a bookseller and Treasurer of the Stationer's Company. Although the title-page of the present work designates him as the 'Author of Felicia to Charlotte', this novel is usually attributed to his wife Mary Collyer (1716/7-1762), best-known as the English translator of Marivaux's La vie de Marianne. First edition; 12mo (17.5 x 10.5 cm); presentation inscription in pen to front free endpaper verso, related bookplate to front pastedown, ownership inscription in pencil to front free endpaper recto, C1-3 and G12-H1 trimmed close at fore-edge; contemporary sprinkled calf, double gilt-filet borders, spines likewise ruled in gilt, corners slightly bumped, small split upper joint, a little weak but holding, very good; xv, [1], 284pp. Provenance: 'Richard Rice given by W[illiam] Cooke' (presentation inscription to front pastedown). ESTC T47430.…