Resultados de búsqueda: memoir of the life and writings de harriet hughes

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1840. Hardcover. Collectible; VG-. Later printing, 12mo, original brownish publisher's cloth with paper spine label, 336 pages, 6 pages publisher ads. Condition: VERY GOOD- : cover wear (staining, fading, slight rippling to rear board cloth), faint foxing to endpapers, three owner names to front endpaper, internally clean and tight. Hemans (1793-1835), born Felicia Dorothea Browne in Liverpool, was very popular in her day, her poems read and respected alongside her contemporaries Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge, etc. She had five children in six years, was abandoned by her husband, spent the rest of her life writing in order to survive and was dead by the age of forty-one. You can read more about her at the Chawton House Library website.

London: William Blackwood and Sons. G: in Good condition without dust jacket as issued. Some scuffing to leather. Staining to title page and frontis. Text clean with a little browing. Previous owner inscriptions to feps. Aeg. 1841. Reprint. Leather hardback cover. 170mm x 110mm (7" x 4"). 352pp. .