Comic Dramas, in Three Acts by Edgeworth, Maria - 1817

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Hunter, 1817. First edn. 8vo, pp. viii, [384]. Bound in original boards (untrimmed), covers loose, lacking a 1x2" piece from the top corner of the title-page, affecting the last three letters of the word "Dramas". A clean copy. CBEL III, 368. 150.

London: R. Hunter 1817. 12mo. 12mo. in the original blue / grey paper covered boards. New hand made paper buff coloured spine, with paper title label. Worm hole to prelims, and foxing throughout, but a Good uncut copy. . Very Good. Original Boards. First Edition. 1817.

Printed for R. Hunter and Baldwin Cradock and Joy, 1817. 8vo (7¼ x 4½ ins). Contemporary half calf on marbled paper-laid boards, spine gilt ruled with gilt lettered label, blue sprinkled edges and marbled endpapers (VG). Pp. [iv] + vii + [1] + 381 + [3] catalogue + [2] blank, with half title (front and rear prelims lightly toned; no inscriptions).

London: R. Hunter, 1817. First edition. Leather. Near Fine. 7" by 4.5". None. A fantastic first edition of three comic plays by Maria Edgeworth. A very original near fine copy.Bound without publisher's advertisments. Containing her plays Love and Law, The Two Guardians and The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock. From the Regency library of Elizabeth Greenly, later Lady Elizabeth Coffin Greenly. Elizabeth Greenly, born at Titley Court, Herefordshire, was a noted and varied collector. She kept prolific diaries from 1784 until her death in 1839 which included her responses to current events and occasions in her daily life. Among the diaries many names and anecdotes of celebrities of the time appear, including Lord Byron, Marie Antoinette, Mary Wollstonecraft and Hannah More. She was known to comment on customs of foreign countries to which she and her friends had travelled, and had a keen interest in scientific discoveries and advancements including medicine and archaelogy.The Greenly library contents show… Read More

London: Printed for R. Hunter, Successor to Mr. Johnson...and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817 First edition. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco over marbled boards, marbled edges. Gilt, flat spine. . Twelvemo. Complete with the half-title. Boards lightly rubbed, endpapers lightly foxed, a little minor browning. A very good, clean copy.

London: R. Hunter, 1817. Pp. viii+382+[2](advertisements); post 12mo; contemporary calf, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, edges of boards lightly worn, joints tender, the spine with slight signs of oval shelf label near head; early inked signature at head of title page and different (also early) signature on lower pastedown, a few leaves slightly browned, scattered light foxing and soiling; R. Hunter, London, 1817. First edition. Sadleir 764; Wolff 1985. *Three plays: Love and Law; The Two Guardians; and The Rose, Thistle and Shamrock. The Preface by the author's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth, is dated May 1, 1817, and must have been one of the last things he wrote before his death on June 13, 1817. Richard Edgeworth was an inventor, author and educationalist who had a dominant influence on his daughter's works (although her first novel, Castle Rackrent (1800), written without his influence, was one of her most popular). Known for her children's stories and for her novels of Irish life, Maria… Read More