Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces. In Fourteen Volumes. Married Set.

Tales, and Miscellaneous Pieces. In Fourteen Volumes. Married Set.

Author: Edgeworth, Maria (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849)

12mo.(4" x 6.5") 1825. Edgeworth , Maria. London. Printed for R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; et al. 14 volumes, Vol. X married. Half maroon pebbled calf with corners, single gilt rule to all leather edges, over marbled boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, gilt vol# to fourth, fancy gilt rule to head and foot. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. All but Vol. X in very good condition, minor edgewear, corners lightly bumped and rubbed. Vol.X ws published at the same time by the same publisher but slightly different gilt rule, barely noticeable due to the extent of damage to its spine, lacking large chips affecting gilt title/vol# (see pic), covers lightly rubbed, front and rear hinges tender. Light foxing to some pages at front and rear of text block. This is a scarce first collected edition (Sadleir 784- "of extreme scarcity"). Engraved vignette on all title pages. Maria Edgeworth was a highly prolific writer of adult and children's literature and very influential in the development of the English novel.

From Wiki: Maria Edgeworth (1 January 1768 – 22 May 1849) was a prolific Anglo-Irish novelist of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held critical views on estate management, politics, and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. During the first decade of the 19th century she was one of the most widely read novelists in Britain and Ireland. Her name today is most commonly associated with Castle Rackrent, her first novel, in which she adopted an Irish Catholic voice to narrate the dissipation and decline of a family from her own landed Anglo-Irish class.

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