Genlis Countess De (17 results)

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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.

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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.

Condition: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

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. …

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.…

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.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Bon. Edition originale. in-8 (21,5 x 14 cm) First edition in English. Première et rare édition en anglais. Reliure plein veau d'époque à dos lisse. Collating [4], 522, [2]; [4], 463, [1, blank]; [4], 432; [4], 408: complete including half and full titles and advertisements to all volumes. According to ESTC, the first edition was not issued with plates or illustrations, though some catalogue entries note a later-inserted frontis to some copies. ESTC further reports 20 copies worldwide, with the caveat that many are "held as mixed sets containing one or more volumes from the 2d edition," making full first edition sets more rare. With the last copy at auction selling in 1907 and the present as the only one available on the market, this early women's education text has become quite scarce. "A prodigious writer of novels and educational treatises, Stephanie the Countess of Genlis became the first woman to serve as the governor of royal princes when she was appointed to direct the education of the children of Phillipe, Duke d'Orleans.Madame de Genlis proved herself a rigorous instructor not only in academic subjects like geometry and mathematics.but also in stressing the importance of charity and good works among the poor" (Encyclopedia). While a decade later she would create a more overt treatise in favor of universal education of boys and girls (Discours sur l'education publique de peuple, 1791), the present work was among her earliest on the topic. Appearing for the first time in English in 1781, the Theatre of Education contains 24 original plays by Genlis, which correspond to her Rousseauian philosophy that schooling assist children in maintaining their innate goodness while participating in communities that are ultimately a corruptive presence (Emile). Genlis' frequent focus on young female characters implies a concern that such readers are less likely to get formal instruction on navigating the social constructs around them; meanwhile, her Preface to volume IV overtly gestures to her desire to fill a class lacuna by bringing such instruction to "shop-keepers and mechanics.ladies maids.and shop-women." The familiar tone, the conversational format, and the distillation of more complex concepts through entertainment would soon become a standard in women's education, picked up by scientists such as Priscilla Wakefield and Jane Marcet.…

Condition: VG. NY 1825 Wilder & Campbell. Octavo, 390pp., rebound in greygreen buckram with gilt spine lettering. Institution bookplate (stamped discard) and end pocket. VG, occasional spotting in text. Volume 2 only (of 8).

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).…

Leather. Condition: Very Good. An early example of the Countess of Genlis's biography of the life of Louise de La Valliere, tracing her life at the court of Louis XIV and her later religious conversion. In the original French.An early edition of this autobiographical work, which was first published in 1804. Complete as two volumes bound in one. Retaining original title pages, and with half title to volume II.Former owner's inscriptions to title page heads.A biography of the life of French noblewoman and the mistress of Louis XIV, Louise de La Valliere, from French writer Stephanie Felicite, Countess of Genlis, who was known for her novels, her theories about education, and her journals. In a half calf binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Light rubbing to joints, otherwise externally excellent. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Inscriptions to title page heads. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

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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 informationÉ. Napoleon paid her to furnish him with letters on literature, politics, etcÉ. 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'Orlans, Duke of Orlans. 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 LibraryÑa 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.…