Author: Maria Edgeworth
Title: Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces by Maria Edgeworth
Description: London , Printed for R. Hunter et al, 1825. Leather. An uncommon complete set of Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces by Maria Edgeworth with vignette title pages to each volumes. In fourteen volumes complete. Contents are as follows: Volume I: Castle Rackrent; Essay on Irish Bulls and Modern Griselda; Volume II: Belinda volume I; Volume II:I Belinda volume II; Volume IV: Leonora, with Several Letters on Several Subjects and an Essay on Self-Justification; Volume V: Popular Tales; Volume VI: Popular Tales and Dramas; Volume VII: Tales of Fashionable Life volume I; Volume VIII: Tales of Fashionable Life volume II; Volume IX: Tales of Fashionable Life volume III; Volume X: Tales of Fashionable Life volume IV; Volume XI: Patronage volume I; Volume XII: Patronage volume II; Volume XIII: Harrington and Ormond; Volume XIV: Ormond. Maria Edgeworth (1768 - 1849) was a prolific Irish writer of adults' and children's literature. She was one of the first realist writers in children's literature and was a significant figure in the evolution of the novel in Europe. She held advanced views, for a woman of her time, on estate management, politics and education, and corresponded with some of the leading literary and economic writers, including Sir Walter Scott and David Ricardo. In half morocco bindings with marbled paper covered boards. Externally, sound but with slight wear to extremities and odd marks to boards. One joint starting, six hinges strained, several others slightly strained. Internally, generally firmly bound. Bright but with foxing to endpapers and with occasional scattered spotting and handling marks to pages. Good . Ill.: None. Good .

Keywords: Maria Edgeworth Castle Rackrent Griselda Castle Rackrent None


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