MARY , MRS PILKINGTON (18 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Zustand: New. KlappentextrnrnThis is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the origina.

Quarter Leather. Zustand: Good. 1st Edition. Published by Darton in 1819, this is the First Edition of this scarce children's book from Mary Pilkington (1761-1839) bound in the original publishers quarter red leather binding, 14cm tall approx., illustrated with a frontispiece and a further two engraved plates. 188 pages plus a publishers advert page, Binding is rubbed and worn with loss to leather on the spine, old ownership inscription and minor remains of old booksellers label above, heavy foxing to a few pages, though the greater part of the contents are generally clean (see pictures) an acceptable example of the scarce first edition.

Leather / Boards. Zustand: Good. First American Edition. 107 Pp. First American Edition, 1803, After The First English Edition Of 1802. Original Leather Spine, Marbled Boards, Extremely Worn, Spine Label With Gilt Title Mostly Chipped Away, Original Watered Paper Boards, Original Endpapers. Simple Bookplate Of Jane C [Cary] Harrison [Of Glentivar And The Moorings, 1797-1883], With Her Name Surropunded By A Border Of 8-Pointed Asterisks, At Top Of Front Pastedown, With Antique, Circa 1835/1840 Inscription "To Polly H Randolph" [Her Daughter Mary Harrison Randolph, Of Woodstock, 1819-1904] Below, With Her Name "Mary H Tabb, Woodstock" Written Below That In A Similar Hand. Quite Worn But Complete. Later Bookplate On Contemporary Blank; This Can Be Removed If That Is Preferred. Scarce. Per Wikipedia, Mary Pilkington (Born Mary Susanna Hopkins, 1761-1839) Was An English Writer. She Wrote Non-Fiction Including A Biographical Dictionary Of Art And An Edition Of Goldsmith, And Books Of Fiction And No-Fiction Moral Instruction For Children. Pilkington Was Born In Cambridge, England. Her Father Died When She Was 15 Years Old And She Went To Live With Her Grandfather. The Man Who Had Taken Over Her Father's Medical Practice Eventually Became Her Husband In 1786. While He Was Away Working As A Naval Surgeon, She Took Work As A Governess. She Published Over Forty Novels In The Years Leading Up To 1825, Many Of Them For Children. She Also Wrote For Periodicals, Notably The Lady's Monthly Museum ? Which She Left Over Poor Compensation[5] ? And The Lady's Magazine.

Fifth edition, 12mo, [4], 209, [3]pp., hand-coloured frontis., text browned, cont. calf-backed boards. Provenance: Presentation inscription ' George Cave Orme, a present from Eliya Phillips, October 1812.'.

New edn. 8vo (8¾ x 5½ ins). Contemporary full tree calf, spine gilt ruled in six compartments with gilt lettered label, gilt tooled board edges (indentation on spine label, some wear at tail of spine and corners and boards a little pitted and marked). Pp. xv + [1] + 411 + [1] + [4] catalogue + [4] blank, no half title, illus with portrait frontispiece and 16 engraved plates (some offsetting from plates on facing pages; previous owners' engraved card on front paste-down and neat 1809 inscription on front free endpaper).

Full Calf. Zustand: Good+. Second British edition. 12mo, pp. 240 + engraved frontispiece, and incl. title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces after Thomas Bewick. Full calf, rebacked with later spine, black morocco label, lettered in gilt. Wear and bumping to corners. Endpapers foxed and creased, POI in faded black ink of Mary Annie Claithe(?) to ffep, offsetting to title page, toned, occasional fox spots. Good+ A pleasing second edition copy (published a year after the first) of Mary Pilkington's educational and moralising 1799 text for young women, illustrated with numerous woodcuts after Thomas Bewick; comprising examples from the lives of prominent women from history and literature (classical, biblical, and modern) exemplifying (mostly) favoured aspects of femininity, including Queens, rulers and nobility (Cleopatra, Catherines Parr, Aragon, & de Medici, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots), educated women (Anna Commena/ Komnene), and wives, mothers and daughters (Agrippina, wife of Germanicus, Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, Elfrida, daughter of the Earl of Devonshire, Penelope). ESTC T135840.

First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound. Mary Pilkington was primarily a governess and a novelist, with over 40 titles attributed to her. Her Mirror was intended as a textbook to aid in instructing girls in school. It led a trend of similar collections of female biography. Evans 36117; Sabin 62852.