First love. A novel

[Loudon, Margracia]

Published by Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, London, 1830

About this Item

First edition of this Irish author's first book; 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 380; [2], 367, [1]; [2], 433, [1], [2] Saunders & Otley ads; original brown paper-covered boards, green cloth shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; spines lightly sunned, upper joint on volume III cracked, and a few other minor defects, but in all, a very good copy of an uncommon novel in original boards. In the top right corner of volume I is a bookseller s octagonal label: "Sold by / Martin Keene & Son / Booksellers and Stationers. / No. 6, College Green / Corner of Anglesea Strt. / Dublin." On p. 1 of each volume, in ink: "Ballygarth House." In 1835, Loudon wrote Philanthropic Economy; or, the philosophy of happiness, "an innovative attempt to redefine the very nature of government activity and to recast the bases of political economy. The work was widely reviewed and published in several editions before the Anti-Corn Law League chose a section to be distributed to all electors in the 1840s (around nine million copies). Yet her publications and even her name - Margracia Loudon - are largely unknown today" (Richardson, The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, 2013, p. 5). Wolff 4190 calling for 3 errata slips and a 4-page catalogue from Whittaker, Treacher, none of which are present here.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: First love. A novel
• Publisher: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, London
• Publication Date: 1830
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • English Literature