[MINERVA PRESS NOVEL. [HOFLAND (Mrs. Barbara)]

Says She to Her Neighbour, What? in Four Volumes. By an Old-Fashioned Englishman.

London: Printed at the Minerva-Press, for A. K. Newman and Co., 1812. First edition, 8vo (170 x 105mm), [4], 285, [3, publishers ads]; [4], 291, [1, publishers ads]; [4], 336; [4], 336pp., with half-titles, ex-library copy, neat library label to front-paste down (Sheffield Public Library), library stamp to verso of title, neat blind stamp to first and last leaves, orig. green cloth, red leather spine label lettered in gilt, library number to base of spine, spines chipped and defective (see images supplied). A rare Minerva Press novel by a lady author, JISC locates just 3 copies (BL, Oxford and University of Manchester). Garside, Raven & Schwöerling, 1812: 37.

Forest BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 37645

Keywords: NOVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE MINERVA PRESS NOVEL FICTION LADY AUTHOR LADIES WOMEN AUTHOR

Mrs Hofland

Alfred Campbell or the Travels of a Young Pilgrim in Egypt and the Holy Land; Alfred Campbell&Apos;S Return to the East.

London, John Harris, 1826. Leather. Two volumes giving the fictional travels of a young pilgrim, bound as one. Barbara Hofland was a prolific author of books for children. She was orphaned young, and supported herself and her husband through much of their lives by her writing. She also opened a ladies' finishing school, a forerunner to the modern Harrogate College. Hofland intended the stories to be in a form "acceptable to youth". They are in a sense didactic, being conceived as morally instructional works for young people. They were based on genuine memoirs of such journeys, particularly those of one Rae Wilson and Captain Mangles RN. Illustrated with 24 charming engravings, showing episodes from the stories. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. In half calf with marbled boards. Externally sound with a little rubbing to the extremities and spine. There is a mark to the bottom of the spine. With a bookseller's stamp to the front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lighted spotted throughout, and with the occasional stain. Offsetting to around half of the 24 plates. Very Good . Ill.: Unamed. Very Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: LTH31-E-18

Catalogue: English Literature Pre 1900

Keywords: Barbara Hofland Illustrated Leather Hugh Selbourne Illustrated Unamed

[Theatre Playbill]. Hofland, Mrs. [Barbara. 1770 - 1844] - Inspiration

The CZARINA!; Third Week of the Engagement of Miss Davenport. Thursday Evening, June 7th, 1860. Mr. H. A. Perry, Will Appear as Peter the Great

[San Francisco]: Calhoun, Printer, 1860. 1st Printing. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Broadside leaflet. 7-3/8" x 4". AN About VG copy, some age-toning and foxing, first line of text discolored & somewhat obscured from evidence of mounting materials and repair to top-edge verso. The headline production presumed to be inspired by Mrs Hofland's 1842 novel, "The CZARINA: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia." A scarce early San Francisco playbill for the Lyceum Theatre, which was managed by a member of the Booth family at the time.

Tavistock Books, ABAAProfessional seller

Book number: 45068

Catalogue: Literature

Keywords: Literature Americana

HOFLAND, Mrs

Czarina, the

London: Henry Colburn, 1842. Borscht and Caviar In the Court of Catherine I HOFLAND, Mrs. [Barbara]. The Czarina; An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia. By Mrs. Hofland-In Three Volumes. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. First edition. Three twelvemo volumes (7 5/16 x 4 5/8 inches; 186 x 118 mm.). [2], 302; [2], 317, [1, blank]; [2], 325, [1, blank] pp. Bound without half-titles (possibly as issued?). Contemporary half plum calf, decoratively ruled in blind, over marbled boards. Spines decoratively ruled and numbered in gilt and ruled in blind with four raised bands and brown morocco gilt lettering labels, edges sprinkled red. Spines faded to brown, corners lightly rubbed, spine labels a tiny bit chipped. Some light foxing and browning. Volume I with a few ink smudges on the verso of the title and on the first page of text and a printing flaw (slight ink smear to a few words) on pp. 258 and 259. A very good copy. One of the last novels by Hofland, an extremely prolific - and moralistic - writer. "The patient reader who has followed Mary [our princess] through her many trials, and, we trust, rejoiced in the development of her virtues as a daughter and sister, will not doubt that she became an exemplary as a wife, a mother, and a mistress " (p. 318). Mrs. Barbara Hofland (1770-1844) “was the daughter of Robert Wreaks, a Sheffield manufacturer, who died when she was an infant. She was brought up by an aunt and in 1796 married T. Bradshawe Hoole, a merchant, by whom she had a son. Hoole’s death from consumption two years later left her wealthy but the money was subsequently lost through a bad investment, and she turned to writing. A volume of Poems (1805) attracted 2,000 subscribers, mainly out of sympathy. She opened a boarding school at Harrogate on the proceeds, and when this failed she began to write fiction. The History of a Clergyman’s Widow (1812) sold 17,000 copies in various editions. In 1808 she married the landscape painter Thomas Cristopher Hofland (1777-1843). The precariousness of an artist’s life together with Hofland’s natural improvidence and subsequent illness meant that she had to work even harder at her fiction. By 1824 she had produced upwards of twenty titles, the most successful of which, and probably her best, was The Son of a Genius [1812], which drew on her experience of the artistic temperament and also on the emotional legacy of her son’s death from consumption. She followed it with The Daughter of a Genius (1823). She was a poplar as well as prolific writer although her fiction, which extended to nearly seventy works, was remorselessly didactic in tone. Towards the end of her career she turned out conventional Victorian three-deckers, including The Czarina (1842), The King’s Son (1843), The Unloved One (1844), and Daniel Dennison (1846). She was also an energetic journalist, having begun as early as 1795 with ‘Characteristics of Some Leading Inhabitants of Sheffield’, which she published in the Sheffield Courant. She expanded this vein later by contributing gossipy letters about London literary life to provincial newspapers. Her children’s books include both history and travel and, despite their moralizing, are attractive and readable. Hofland was a friend of Mary Russell Mitford” (The Oxford Companion to British Women Writers). “[Mrs. Hofland’s] work for children includes imaginative textbooks (she centres both histories and travels on invented young people). Some simplified moral judgements apart, it is intelligent and readable. Depth and variety is added in adult works like Iwanowa, or The Maid of Moscow, 1813 (Richardsonian letters; clash of armies and cultures), Katherine, 1828 (delicate psychological analysis of misunderstandings in love), The Captives in India, 1834 (effective use of Eliza Fay), and The King’s Son, 1843 (fictional vindication of Richard III)” (The Feminist Companion to Literature in English). Block, pp. 109-110. CBEL III, 734. CBEL (3) IV, 934. Not in Sadleir or in Wolff, who had only two of her works—The Captives in India, A Tale; and A Widow and a Will (1834) and A Season in Harrogate (1812). .

David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)Professional seller

Book number: 00735

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: English Literature Nineteenth-Century Literature Women Nineteenth-Century Literature Women SALE

HOFLAND,Mrs.

The daughter-in-law, her father, and family.

New edition, Newman London,Nd.(ca 1860). 196pp. Halfleather. Small8vo.

Antiquariaat Smit & BosProfessional seller

Book number: 398

Catalogue: English literature

HOFLAND,MRS

Ellen, the teacher. A tale for youth.

New edition, London, John Harris,1829. 185pp. Halfleather. Small8vo.

Antiquariaat Smit & BosProfessional seller

Book number: 481

Catalogue: Kinderboeken

HOFLAND, Mrs

The Good Grandmother and Her Offspring; a Tale

1817. HOFLAND, Mrs. THE GOOD GRANDMOTHER AND HER OFFSPRING; A TALE. New York: James Eastburn & Co. 1817. 16mo. pale salmon paper covered board, printed in black. Spine mostly chipped away; rear board missing. Moderate foxing to interior. Ink ownership to blank recto preceding title page. Text complete. Juvenile novel of moral instruction. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 84004

Catalogue: Children

HOFLAND (Mrs)

The good grandmother and her offspring: a tale

A, K.Newman, 1828. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in quarter leather 2nd ed. 2nd edition, with additions. In marbled paper-covered boards with red cloth spine. Gift inscriptions dated 1829 on front free end paper; frontis & first (decorated) title page damp-stained; boards worn at edges & corners; leather of spine worn; back joint repaired but fragile Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_2932_jpg.jpg.

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Book number: BOOKS227931I

Mrs. Hofland [Barbara Hofland]

The Good Grandmother, and Her Offspring

London, A. K. Newman & Co, 1828 . Leather. The second edition of Barbara Hofland's charming moral tale for children, a work influenced by the author's Anglican faith. The second edition of this work, 'with additions&apos.Illustrated with an engraved title page and frontispiece.A delightful children's work from Barbara Hofland, the English writer of over sixty didactic, moral stories for children, and of schoolbooks and poetry. It was described by the author as a 'sketch of children in very humble life' intended to 'console the sorrows, stimulate the energies, and encourage the efforts of the industrious poor&apos. With the inscription of Anne W. Waring to the front free endpaper.With four pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original roan backed, marble paper covered boards. Significant rubbing to back strip head and tail and joints. Significant rubbing to boards. Joint tails starting, with boards firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Title page significantly age toned. Light spotting throughout, with pages lightly age toned to perimeters. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Rooke BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 944F46

Catalogue: Children's Books

Keywords: Good Grandmother, and Her Offspring The History of an Officer's Widow morality children's literature The History of an Officer's Widow Not Stated

HOFLAND, Mrs

The History of an Officer's Widow, and Her Young Family

HOFLAND, Mrs. THE HISTORY OF AN OFFICER'S WIDOW, AND HER YOUNG FAMILY. Boston: Munroe, Francis & Parker [n.d. ca. 1821]. 168 pp. 16mo. quarter green gilt-riled and lettered calf (sunned to brown) with original paper covered boards. Moderate wear yo boards, light soil, joints cracked, spine chipped at heel and crown. Ink ownership dated 1821 on blank recto preceding title page. Light occasional foxing. Text complete. Juvenile novel of moral instruction. .

Boston Book CompanyProfessional seller

Book number: 84005

Catalogue: Children

Mrs Hofland, author of Africa Described; Decision; Patience; Moderation; Reflection; Self-Denial; Clergyman's Widow etc

Integrity

A K Newman and Company, London, 1834. Edition Unstated, Hardcover. Good/No Dust Jacket. "A New Edition". Blind printed dark green covers with gilt lettering to spine, top 1.5cm missing from spine, corners rubbed, gilt blocks, binding sound but first gather is a little shaken, frontis plate, clean pages Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 10111090008. ISBN: 0947934308

Bailgate Books LtdProfessional seller

Book number: 10111090008

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: BZDB4 , fiction Fiction; Mrs Hofland, author of Africa Described; Decision; Patience; Moderation; Reflection; Self-Denial; Clergyman's Widow etc Integrity

HOFLAND [Barbara]. Mrs:

The Son of a Genius. New Edition, Carefully Revised and Enlarged by the Author.

London: John Harris..., 1832. 12mo (in 6s), 140 x 87 mms., pp. iv [5] - 252, engraved frontispiece,contemporary quarter sheepskin, marbled boards (rubbed). tilt label; corners worn and binding a bit shabby. This novel for children was to prove the author's most popular publication: Barbara Hofland [née Wreaks] (1770 - 1844) published about 60 novels in her lifetime, and most of them were reprinted at least once. "In Son of a Genius, the lesson which Hofland stresses with more urgency than any other is the importance of keeping receipts. Ludovico finds a receipt, seeks for its owner, and when he is able to return it to him, is rewarded with two guineas. This much is the conventional 'honesty rewarded' episode of so many moral tales. But Hofland goes much further. Not only does Ludovico go through the rest of the tale insisting on receipts from everyone he deals with, thereby cementing the lesson.., but Mr. Higgins, who had lost the original receipt, explains just why this piece of paper is so valuable to him" (online: https://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/items/0138.html). OCLC gives a pagination of vii, [1], 171, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. so this must be a different issue. Moon, M. Harris (1992),; 373(8)

John Price Antiquarian BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 10424

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: fiction juvenile literature

HOFLAND, Mrs. (Barbara) 1770-1844.

The son of genius; a tale, for the use of youth.

London: printed for J. Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, and Simpkins and Marshall, Stationers'-Court, 1818 new edition. 12mo in sixes. vii[i], 172pp, frontis. Original half maroon roan, red calf gilt spine label, paper sides. Binding rubbed with wear to extremes; frontis and title browned; very light occasional spotting to text. Also available with a green roan spine. Moon 374 (4); Gumuchian 3057. Moon notes that an article in the Q.R. of 1844 describes the book as 'a very beautiful tale, and in the best of this lady's numerous little books, which are mostly too much of the novelette style to recommend.' DISCOVER: Reading Univ, CUL, NLW.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 44068

Catalogue: Juvenile & Childrens

Keywords: JUVENILE & CHILDRENS Fiction Conduct of life ; Juvenile fiction. Fiction Illustrated Juvenile literature - English - 19th century. Publishers' advertisements - England - 19th century.

HOFLAND, Mrs.

Theodore; or the Crusaders.

London, John Harris, c.1825. 12mo.,pp. viii,215, red calf spine, gilt lettering, marbled paper covered boards, b/w frontispiece; ownership autograph to front free endpaper, light foxing to endpapers, with toning and occasional light foxing to margins, rubbed to extremities with wear along edges of boards and to corners, spine lightly rubbed and toned, overall very good.

The Minster Gate BookshopProfessional seller

Book number: 38674

Catalogue: MISCELLANEOUS

Keywords: History

HOFLAND, Mrs. (Barbara) 1770-1844.

A week at Harrogate. A poem: in a series of letters, addressed from Benjamin Blunderhead, Esq., to his friend, Simon: describing whatever principally attracted his attention, on his journey (through York,) to, and during his stay at that celebrated watering place.

Knaresborough: printed, (for the author), and sold by Hargrove and Son [etc.], 1818 third edition; with three neat plates. 17cm. 98pp, [2]pp publisher's advert, 2 copper plates of the Harrogate Wells + woodcut of Clifford's Tower, 8 fine woodcut devices. Original printed blue paper boards. Plain matching modern blue paper spine; binding lightly rubbed. We have been unable to ascertain from Leeds University Library whether in fact their copy does contain three plates. What we can say is that two copies currently on the market contain a single plate; that was the case with a copy we sold in 2010. This copy came from the 'time-capsule' collection at the Hermitage, Hexham. Items were bought and stored in brown paper wraps until the sale in 2011. This edition not in Johnson - he records the 1812 and 1813 editions. DISCOVER: Leeds U.

John TurtonProfessional seller

Book number: 46402

Catalogue: Local History

Keywords: Local History yorkshire Harrogate (England) ; Poetry. Harrogate (England) Description and travel. Harrogate (England) Harrogate