Countess Genlis (10 results)

HARDBACK RED. Condition: VG. General wear 1/4 leather binding, two volumes bound together, scuffed covers, marbled covers, good gilt to spine DATE PUBLISHED: 1825 EDITION: 329.

Hardcover - as published. Tan Leather. Fair, hinges weak, foxing throughout. 410pp. Vol 1 ONLY this vol. ends with her trashing Voltaire and Gibbon's Decline and Fall.

Second Edition. Worn copy bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; tome I (only): 474 pages. Subjects; Historical news. Moral tales. French literature. 3 Kg.

Second Edition. Worn copy bound in half leather over marble boards with gilt-blocked label to the spine. Some minor wear and tear to the spine and boards, along with some dust-toning. Remains well-preserved overall; bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Physical description; tome I (only): 474 pages. Subjects; Historical news. Moral tales. French literature. 1 Kg.

Full Leather. Condition: Fair+. No Jacket. New Edition. 328 pages; Leather covers are rubbed and scuffed; Spine label remains good; Free end leaves have been removed; Frontispiece is partially torn away from binding, with a one inch mostly closed tear into image; Frontispiece with additional general edge wear; Title page just a little soiled; A couple signatures (grouping of leaves) are sprung; Volume remains tight and contents are otherwise intact and fairly clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Light-brown leather-covered spine and corners, with paper-covered boards and red/gilt title-label. 104 x 166 x 16mm. 173pp. Corners rubbed and lightly scuffed, and spine label a little scuffed, but spine otherwise clean and sound (possibly a replacement); internal contents clean and unmarked throughout. NB: An extra shipping charge may be requested for heavier or more valuable items. All our 'Seller Images' show the actual item you will receive.

Half-Leather. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Green leather spine over marbled boards. Top of spine pulled resulting in a 1.5 inch tear to the gutters on either side. Generally quite a worn and shabby copy. Two volumes in one. vii, 324pp. C00000308.

Leather. 1st Edition in English. 1st UK edition, translated from French, octavo, xii, 333, previous owner's inscriptions (Diana R. Bunbury and Peter Cowan), faint waterstains edges latter leaves, endpapers marked, front hinge reinforced with binders tape, few marks edges, leather boards, head spine chipped with loss, split along both joints, boards marked and scuffed, edges worn. Private journal of the Governess, volume II only. Text in English. From the library of two Western Australians, Peter Cowan and Diana Richardson Bunbury with both their signatures (dated 1947 and 1821, respectively).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. in continuation of the 'Tales of the Castle', two volumes, contemporary full-leather, spines chipped with minor loss at extremities, leather labels missing, hinges starting, corners rubbed, frontispiece volume I, closed tear to several leaves repaired with archival tape volume I, ownership signature front pastedowns, good. uncommon; first edition; 382 pages plus notes and 380 pages including notes; keywords: fiction - women authors;

First Edition. "GENLIS, Countess de. Memoirs of the Countess de Genlis, Illustrative of the History of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. London: Henry Colburn, 1825. Eight volumes. Octavo, early 20th-century full red morocco, elaborately gilt-decorated spines and covers, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $3200.First edition in English of these compelling memoirs, extensively extra-illustrated with approximately 150 relevant portraits and views of France (nearly a third hand-colored), beautifully bound in full morocco-gilt by Bayntun.Madame de Genlis was "a woman of encyclopedic information. Napoleon paid her to furnish him with letters on literature, politics, etc. She was an inexhaustible writer of popular romances which combined sentiment and sensation, morals and history" (Oxford Companion to French Literature, 304). Her Memoirs, which comprise a perceptive social history of the 18th and early 19th centuries, were initially considered somewhat scandalous because of their detailed personal accounts of famous figures known to frequent her salon. She was later well-known both for her advocacy of Rousseau's theories of child-rearing and her close association with her relative Madame de Montesson, the lover (and later wife) of Louis Philippe d'Orléans, Duke of Orléans. Morocco bookplates of Doris Louise Benz, whose exceptional and varied collection, mainly comprising first editions like this one, was sold at auction to benefit Dartmouth College Librarya charitable gesture that Dartmouth happily accepted but continues to find mysterious given that Benz was an alumna of Radcliffe with no ties to Dartmouth.Only a few spots of foxing to generally clean interiors, bindings lovely and fine. A beautiful set.".