The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With Interesting Reminiscences of King George The Third and Queen Charlotte.

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First editions of the first series (1861) in three volumes and the second series (1862), also in three volumes, complete. Octavo (22.5 x 14.5cm). 'Six volumes of autobiography show Mrs. Delany to have been an amiable and virtuous woman, universally respectable, and in her later years capable of telling many interesting anecdotes of Swift, Pope, and others to a later generation. The letters are chiefly intetesting as specimens of the commonplace gossip of good society in the eighteenth century.'- DNB. Vol. I, pp. x,621; Vol. II, pp. [iv],635; Vol. III, pp. [vi],635; Vol. IV, pp. [vi],695; Vol. V, pp. [iv],586; VI, pp. [vi],602,[2]. With a total of 23 steel engraved portraits (that to from the final volume replaced in error by a duplicate of the frontis to the fifth volume), one wood engraved view, a facsimile plate of writing & a chromo-lithographed plate plus a large folding pedigree. The whole smarty bound in slighty later half crushed morocco, gilt, teg, with cloth sides & marbled endpapers. Some occasional light foxing, and some very minor light rubbing. VG. Heavy item may require additional postage outside Europe. [DNB V, 756; Pargellis & Medley 2001]. N° de ref. del artículo 11302

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