LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE MRS. BIRCH, OF BARTON LODGE, IN THE NINETY-NINTH AND HUNDREDTH YEARS OF HER AGE
by (BINDINGS - ROMANTIC). BIRCH, JOHN WILLIAM NEWELL, Editor
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About This Item
London: Published by the Editor, printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square, ca. 1837. FIRST EDITION. 277 x 208 mm. (10 7/8 x 8 1/8"). xvi, 152 pp.
Contemporary purple pebble-grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind in the Romantic style, covers framed by triple blind-stamped fillet border with floral cornerpieces, blind-stamped floral roll around gilt frame with swirling scroll pieces, gilt titling in center surrounded by blind-stamped circular frame, raised bands, blind-stamped frame compartments with gilt borders, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Birch by J. F. Lewis. With four lithographed facsimiles of handwritten letters. ◆Spine sunned to lighter purple, a few trivial scratches, some foxing to frontispiece, facsimiles, and endpapers, otherwise internally clean with only a handful of small smudges, and THE BINDING IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION, with only the slightest signs of use.
This charming memorial in a well-preserved, special binding gives us a glimpse into the English gentry's life in the early to mid-19th century. In letters to her family and acquaintances, Mrs. Birch reports on the trials and travails of her daily life and her failing, though still fair health. While this book was privately published by and for the family, the editor, Mrs. Birch's son, John, acknowledges that it will outlive its original owners: "Certain it is, that every succeeding step in [the book's] descent, removes it further and further from all the recollections and associations which ensured to it the indulgent and partial judgment of its first possessors." While the original publisher's binding is of blue cloth, ours is a special binding, perhaps done for the immediate family members, in full morocco. This item is also quite rare; we could find fewer than 10 copies in libraries worldwide. Though we are far from the first possessors, we can still delight in the day-to-day recollections of a well-loved and much-revered matriarch at the end of her preternaturally long life..
Contemporary purple pebble-grain morocco decorated in gilt and blind in the Romantic style, covers framed by triple blind-stamped fillet border with floral cornerpieces, blind-stamped floral roll around gilt frame with swirling scroll pieces, gilt titling in center surrounded by blind-stamped circular frame, raised bands, blind-stamped frame compartments with gilt borders, all edges gilt. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Mrs. Birch by J. F. Lewis. With four lithographed facsimiles of handwritten letters. ◆Spine sunned to lighter purple, a few trivial scratches, some foxing to frontispiece, facsimiles, and endpapers, otherwise internally clean with only a handful of small smudges, and THE BINDING IN ESPECIALLY FINE CONDITION, with only the slightest signs of use.
This charming memorial in a well-preserved, special binding gives us a glimpse into the English gentry's life in the early to mid-19th century. In letters to her family and acquaintances, Mrs. Birch reports on the trials and travails of her daily life and her failing, though still fair health. While this book was privately published by and for the family, the editor, Mrs. Birch's son, John, acknowledges that it will outlive its original owners: "Certain it is, that every succeeding step in [the book's] descent, removes it further and further from all the recollections and associations which ensured to it the indulgent and partial judgment of its first possessors." While the original publisher's binding is of blue cloth, ours is a special binding, perhaps done for the immediate family members, in full morocco. This item is also quite rare; we could find fewer than 10 copies in libraries worldwide. Though we are far from the first possessors, we can still delight in the day-to-day recollections of a well-loved and much-revered matriarch at the end of her preternaturally long life..
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- Bookseller
- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- LETTERS WRITTEN BY THE LATE MRS. BIRCH, OF BARTON LODGE, IN THE NINETY-NINTH AND HUNDREDTH YEARS OF HER AGE
- Author
- (BINDINGS - ROMANTIC). BIRCH, JOHN WILLIAM NEWELL, Editor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- FIRST EDITION
- Publisher
- Published by the Editor, printed by A. Spottiswoode, New-Street-Square
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- ca. 1837
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
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McMinnville, Oregon
About Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books an Manuscripts was established in 1978 on a ping pong table in a basement in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From the beginning, its founder was willing to sell a range of material, but over the years, the business has gravitated toward historical artifacts that are physically attractive in some way--illuminated material, fine bindings, books printed on vellum, fore-edge paintings, beautiful typography and paper, impressive illustration. Today, the company still sells a wide range of things, from (scruffy) ninth century leaves to biblical material from all periods to Wing and STC imprints to modern private press books to artists' bindings. While we are forgiving about condition when something is of considerable rarity, we always try to obtain the most attractive copies possible of whatever we offer for sale.
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