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Nabu Press, 2010-01-04. paperback. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

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London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801, 1801. First edition. Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595. Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy.. 2 vols, 4to, contemporary half calf, blue paste-paper boards, red morocco spine labels, gilt rules and lettering. Frontis portrait. Without the half-titles and eight-page publisher's catalogue in volume two, but with the four pages of Stockdale's proposal for the publication of maps. A sweeping chronological history of the world in 540 pages, from the birth of Christ to 1800, told in the entertaining, informal style of Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741-1821). Retrospection was written and published to celebrate (and profit from) the turn of the century, for which Piozzi proposed a £1,000 advance. John Stockdale agreed to her terms, but Retrospection was not a commercial success. It is an early example of a history of the world by a woman - though not the first. It took Piozzi at least five years to complete.

London: printed for John Stockdale, 1801. First edition, 2 volumes, 4to, pp. xvi, [17]-461; viii, [9]-540, [8] (ads); stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait; original cream paper-backed boards (quite soiled), orange printed spine labels, leaves uncut; all covers, save Vol. I rear cover, separated; some dampstaining in Vol. I, else textblocks about fine, with the half titles. In custom blue cloth clamshell box, David and Lulu Borowitz's bookplate. Rothschild 1553.