Editore: Jonathan Cape, 1930, Traveller's Library series,, 1930
Da: WeBuyBooks, Rossendale, LANCS, Regno Unito
Condizione: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A good condition book. No dust jacket. Mild shelf wear and age but a well-preserved book overall with clean and firmly bound pages.
Editore: The Grolier Society, London
Da: The Curiosity Book Shop, Hardwick, MA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good/No Jacket. Ex-Library. No date, circa 1900. Edition De Luxe, Limited to One Thousand Copies for England and America, No. 395. Lovely tinted frontis and engraved text portraits and tissue guards intact and crisp. Three-quarter leather binding, raised bands, gilt spine lettering, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers--once very attractive but now marred by library "repairs" and marks. Clear laminate affixed over spine; white tape to front and rear hinges, resulting in split along front endpaper; various library inkstamps and black markings over some library marks appear on front blank endpapers, "Dandies" title page, verso of rear marbled endpaper, and top page block; scars from pocket- and sticker- removal to rear endpaper. Moderate wear to cover edges, moderate-to-heavy rubbing of marbled cover boards. Interior text crisp and clean.
Editore: Jonathan Cape, 1930, Traveller's Library series,, 1930
Da: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. hardback, small 8vo, 287pp plus catalogue, owner's name on endpaper, otherwise clean and sound, blue cloth, gilt decorated spine, slight soiling on covers, Good condition / no dustwrapper.
Editore: The New York Public Library, 1977
Da: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hardcover. Gray paper over boards with a red paper spine and gold lettering. No date on title page. Copyright date is 1977. 69 pages. In very good condition. The binding is square and strong. The corners are very lightly bumped. Covers a bit rubbed. Pages inside are clean and unmarked. A limited facsimile edition of 500 copies, of which this is number 322.
Editore: Broadview Press, 2013., 2013
Da: Page After Page, Box Hill, VIC, Australia
Soft Cover., 21.5x14cm, map, 319 pages, several illustrations, bumped corners, couple of dog ears. A new edition of a body of work originally pub.in 1763, by the author who accompanied her husband Edward Montagu to Turkey; Newly edited by two Canadian University Professors;
Editore: The Clarendon Press (Oxford University), Oxford, 1977
ISBN 10: 0198124449 ISBN 13: 9780198124443
Da: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, Regno Unito
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good Plus. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1977. xi, 412pp. 7 b&w plates. A scholarly edition of works by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus. "Despite being an aristocrat and a woman, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762) made herself a writer. Lady Mary has long been well-known as a `character' a letter writer, and a traveller, this revised paperback edition of her non-epistolary writings appears at a time when interest in her literary work is now widespread and serious. Lady Mary saw herself as `haunted by the Daemon of Poesie'. She wrote literary criticism of Addison and the only essay by a woman published in the Spectator, together with spirited verse replies to Pope and Swift and passionate love-poems which dispute the period's label `Age of Reason'. Her essays (some published anonymously in newspapers) and poems (many of which appeared with her secret connivance) deal with issues still alive and accessible today: love, marriage, prejudice against women writers, the medical breakthrough of smallpox innoculation. Her comedy, Simplicity, has been recently revived in productions around the U.K. Hard-hitting, eloquent and often funny, the work of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu will be essential reading for the growing number of scholars, students and general readers of women's writing." Sunning to spine of price clipped dust jacket. The jacket is covered with removeable clear plastic for protection. The book is in excellent condition with no inscriptions.
Editore: Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996
ISBN 10: 0198183194 ISBN 13: 9780198183198
Da: Bowman Books, Wooster, OH, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Tightly bound in full navy cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. A fine, fresh copy in like dust jacket: clean, tight, and unmarked with only a small previous owner's mark on the front endpaper. xxviii, 276pp.
Editore: Printed by Robert Donaldson, Greenock, Scotland, 1818
Da: Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA, EUGENE, OR, U.S.A.
Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Privately printed. Full contemporary calf. Octavo, 7 3/4" x 5. pp. vi, 159. Rubbing to extremities. Rebacked in sympathetic brown calf, four raised bands, with contrasting bergundy spine label, lettered in gilt. Bookplate "Blythswood" to front pastedown. Long manuscript inscription mentioning literary executor John Dunlop, consisting of 16 lines, to front flyleaf dated 1899, strongly emphasizing the intention for its contents to be "strictly private" for ".friends.", etc. INSCRIBED from General Sir James Steuart (son of Sir James Steuart, named in the letters) to Archibald Campbell of Blythswood, Esquire. Pages very clean. (OCLC # 503816376). According to Worldcat, the only other copy can be found in the British Library. NOTE: This volume is not to be confused with other volumes of Lady Montague's letters. There are no transaction records for this privately-issued volume on Rare Book Hub. These letters to Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart were written between May of 1758 and July of 1762. On August 21, LMWM died of breast cancer, just seven weeks after her last letter to Lady Frances Steuart was written -- on July 2nd. LMWM wrote the letters in her last surviving important correspondence: with Sir James and Lady Frances Steuart. In that final letter, LMWM wrote: "Dear Madam -- I have been ill a long time, and am now so bad, I am little capable of writing", going on to assure Lady Frances : "I am always told your affairs shall be taken care of. You may depend, dear Madam, nothing shall be wanting, on the part of your Ladyships faithful humble Servant", [signed] M.W. Montague. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), the famed English writer, poet, and traveller corresponded with Sir James and Lady Francis Steuart while travelling the continent. . The Steuarts had been exiled from their home in Scotland after their alleged involvement in the 1745 Jacobite uprising. They did not return to Scotland until 1763. Sir James Steuart, an economic theorist, (Steuart's "Inquiry into the Principles of Political Oeconomy" was the first systematic economic treatise to be published in Britain, and introduced the very term âpolitical economy' into the English language). Steuart often sent Montague his manuscript writings for her commentary. Montagu is perhaps best remembered for her writings on the Ottoman Empire and their practice of smallpox inoculation. However, her letters to the Steuarts relate important current events in Italy and the Netherlands, as well as her views on health, gender, and education. Montague writes in her characteristically witty style throughout. In one instance, she writes "I own I am charmed with.the reproach which you men so saucily throw on our sex, as if we alone were subject to vapours.you vile usurpers do not only engross learning, power, and authority to yourselves, but will be our superiors even in constitution of mind, and fancy you are incapable of the woman's weakness of fear and tenderness" (17) This copy is one of "a few printed for strictly private" circulation. Scottish General James Steuart (1744-1839), son of Sir James and Lady Francis Steuart of Coltness, confided the task of editing his family's letters and papers to John Dunlop (1785-1842) a Scottish commentator on literature. As the address to the reader states, "Sir James Steuart had no intention, till very lately, of Printing this little volume; but it having been represented to him how much some of his particular friends would be gratified by a perusal of letters from the pen of Lady M.W. Montague.he at length consented to the letters being put into their present form, and to have only a few copies of them thrown off" (Preface to the Letters). General James Steuart presented this copy to one of those gratified friends, Archibald Campbell (1763-1838) of Blythswood House, MP for Glasgow. Its existence as a privately printed work testifies to the enduring legacy of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. (ODNB and Wikipedia).