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HOFLAND, Barbara (1770-1844). The Czarina: An Historical Romance of the Court of Russia. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. 3 volumes, 8°, brown half morocco and comb-marbled boards, spine compartments directly lettered in gilt, marbled edges. FIRST EDITION of this late novel. The daughter of a Sheffield manufacturer, Barbara Hofland was twice married, the second time to the artist, Thomas Hofland. She used her pen as a resource to such an extent that by 1824 she had already produced upwards of twenty works of fiction.
LANDON, Laetitia Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Maclean (1802-1838). Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up appearances. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. 3 volumes, 12°, engraved portrait frontispiece (frontispece and title to vol. I browned), uniformly bound with the previous work. FIRST EDITION, published after the author's death in mysterious circumstances in West Africa. Like her other novels, it appeared under the initials "L.E.L." Sadleir 1367; Wolff 3943.
With 6 other contemporary novels, one in 4, the rest in 3 volumes, by Marguerite Countess Blessington, Charlotte Dacre, Catherine Gore, and Laetitia Landon, all uniformly bound in brown half morocco of ca. 1880. Provenance: Charles first Viscount Eversley of Heckfield (armorial bookplate). (25)
LANDON, Laetitia Elizabeth, afterwards Mrs. Maclean (1802-1838). Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up appearances. London: Henry Colburn, 1842. 3 volumes, 12°, engraved portrait frontispiece (frontispece and title to vol. I browned), uniformly bound with the previous work. FIRST EDITION, published after the author's death in mysterious circumstances in West Africa. Like her other novels, it appeared under the initials "L.E.L." Sadleir 1367; Wolff 3943.
With 6 other contemporary novels, one in 4, the rest in 3 volumes, by Marguerite Countess Blessington, Charlotte Dacre, Catherine Gore, and Laetitia Landon, all uniformly bound in brown half morocco of ca. 1880. Provenance: Charles first Viscount Eversley of Heckfield (armorial bookplate). (25)
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