Author: Maria Edgeworth
Title: Works of Maria Edgeworth
Description: London, Whittaker and Co; Simpkin, Marshall and Co, et al. 1848. Leather. A beautiful collection of the works of Maria Edgeworth bound in smart leather with gilt spines. Collecting the novels and tales of this important nineteenth century novelist.Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849) was an Anglo-English author, important to the popularisation of the novel as a genre. Her works were often realist, with a moral underlying the story.Each volume is illustrated with a frontispiece and illustrated half title page.Volume I comprises Edgeworth's 'Moral Tales&apos.Volume II comprises her 'Popular Tales&apos.Volume III comprises 'Belinda&apos.Volume IV comprises 'Castle Rackrent', 'An Essay on Irish Bulls', 'An Essay of the Noble Science of Self-Justification', 'Ennui' and 'The Dun&apos.Volume V comprises 'Manoeuvring', 'Almeria' and 'Vivian&apos.Volume VI comprises 'The Absentee', 'Madame de Fleury', 'Emilie de Coulanges' and 'The Modern Griselda&apos.Volume VII comprises 'Patronage&apos.Volume VIII comprises 'Patronage', 'Comic Dramas', 'Leonora' and 'Letters&apos.Volume IX comprises 'Harington', 'Thoughts on Bores' and 'Ormond&apos.A beautiful set of the works of Maria Edgeworth, with delightful gilt detail to the spines. In a half crushed morocco binding. Externally very smart, with just slight rubbing to the spines, extremities and hinges, in particular to volume V an volume VIII. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just the odd spot. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .

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