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MINERVA PRESS -- STANHOPE, Louisa Sidney (fl. 1806-1827). The Age We live in. A novel. London: printed at the Minerva Press for A.K. Newman, [1809]. 3 volumes in one, 12° (170 x105mm). With half-title and final advertisement leaf in each volume. (K1 of vol. I and K5 of vol. II holed affecting a few letters, D1 of vol. I holed at margin, occasional spotting and dust-marks.) Contemporary red half morocco, flat spine divided by fillets and gilt lettered (rather worn, spine repaired at head). Provenance: Alexander Donovan 1827 (inscription on front pastedown). FIRST EDITION of this novel whose naive heroine, Emma Fitzomer, has 'the bloom of eighteen mantled on her cheek'. It was taken by 6 out of 17 possible Circulating Libraries. ONLY 3 HOLDINGS IN COPAC. Blakey p. 227; Block p. 224; Summers p. 225.
BENNETT, Agnes Maria or Anna Maria. The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors. London: William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1797. 7 volumes, 12°. Half-titles in each volume, advertisement leaf in vol. V. (Occasional dust-marks.) Contemporary calf, flat spine with contrasting labels, volume numbers surrounded by bay leaves (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the longest novel published by the Minerva Press. Its realistic scenes of London middle-class life impressed Coleridge who called it 'the best novel me judice since Fielding'. Blakey p. 180; Block p. 19; Summers p. 244.
BENNETT, Agnes Maria or Anna Maria. The Beggar Girl and Her Benefactors. London: William Lane at the Minerva Press, 1797. 7 volumes, 12°. Half-titles in each volume, advertisement leaf in vol. V. (Occasional dust-marks.) Contemporary calf, flat spine with contrasting labels, volume numbers surrounded by bay leaves (extremities rubbed). FIRST EDITION of the longest novel published by the Minerva Press. Its realistic scenes of London middle-class life impressed Coleridge who called it 'the best novel me judice since Fielding'. Blakey p. 180; Block p. 19; Summers p. 244.