Heath's drawing-room portfolio : containing seven large and beautiful engravings with fanciful illustrations, in verse, by the Countess of Blessington.
by Countess of Blessington & Charles Heath (editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, 1837 7 Unnumbered leaves, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; some slight foxing. All edges gilt. Original yellow endpapers. 36 x 28 cm. Bound in beautifully embossed turquoise cloth of lavish intertwining foliage, a double blind ruled border, an inner oval border with ornate gilt corner designs and gilt lettering within a classical rococco surround with a grotesque and acanthus leaves. Head and tail of spine very slightly worn. Some extremely mild signs of handling but in overall unusually fine condition. Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington (née Power;1789 1849), was an Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess. She edited Heath's Book of Beauty and wrote several novels in the silver-fork style (Two Friends, Victims of Society & The Magic Lantern) with a sentimental approach to describing women that the Brontes, who pored over and copied their own versions of the engraved female images, in pencil sketches, imitated in their early writings. This is a very good example of a Gift Book, that was priced at 11 shillings and sixpence -aimed at the growing middle-class who wanted mass-produced but elegant volumes to help banish the boredom that their spare time afforded them in this new social class.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.
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- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4246
- Title
- Heath's drawing-room portfolio : containing seven large and beautiful engravings with fanciful illustrations, in verse, by the Countess of Blessington.
- Author
- Countess of Blessington & Charles Heath (editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- London: Charles Tilt, Fleet Street
- Date Published
- 1837
- Keywords
- BRONTE, DRAWINGS, FEMALE BEAUTY, SENSITIVITY.
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My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
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