Recollections of A Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People

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A smartly bound two-volume set of the second edition of Mary Russell Mitford"s Recollections, blending personal memoir and lively literary essays, with chapters on favorite books, poets, and places. Bound in a full calf binding.Second edition.A childhood acquaintance of Jane Austen, Mary Russell Mitford was a successful writer best known for Our Village, her celebrated series of country sketches inspired by life in Three Mile Cross.Spanning 42 chapters across two volumes, Recollections offers lively, informal essays on Mitford"s favorite books. The essays range widely in subject, touching on topics such as comic poets, Spanish ballads, and the affinities between poets and their admirers. As she herself observed, the work contains "too much personal gossip and local scene-painting for the grave pretension of critical essays, and too much criticism and extract for anything approaching autobiography." Bound in a full calf binding. Externally, smart. The odd slight handling mark to boards. The odd minor scratch to boards. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities resulting in slight loss to calf. Rubbing to spines resulting in minor loss to gilt. Front hinges slightly cracked, but holding firm. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper from 1861, from "Paul Frederick Forster from his sincere friend Mr. Egerton Hubbard on his leaving Eton." Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean, with typical age toning and the odd spot, heavier to first and last few leaves, particularly to the frontispiece and title page of volume I. Very Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 980H11

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