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Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind
de PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH [THRALE]
- Usado
- Estado
- Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy.
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San Francisco, California, United States
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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.
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- 28558
- Título
- Retrospection: or A Review of the Most Striking and Important Events, Characters, Situations, and their Consequences, which the last Eighteen Hundred Years have Presented to the View of Mankind
- Autor
- PIOZZI, HESTER LYNCH [THRALE]
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Rothschild 1553; NCBEL II, 1595
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Edges a little rubbed; some light foxing; very good copy.
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Editorial
- London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1801
- Fecha de publicación
- 1801
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