Edgeworth, Maria (1768-1849)
Tales and Novels, presentation set from Edgeworth to her half-sister
£1,260
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 21 September 2023 at 10:00 BST
Description
London: Whittaker and Co., 1848. 9 volumes, 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth, rebacked, engraved frontispiece and additional vignette title-page to each volume, tips bumped and worn, volume 7 front free endpaper and vignette title-page near-detached
Footnote
Note: Inscribed by the author 'Lucy Jane Robinson, from her sister Maria Edgeworth, with her love, March 6th 1848' on the front pastedown of volumes 2-9 ('with her love' omitted in volume 6). Lucy Jane Robinson (née Edgeworth, c.1805-1898) was the daughter of Maria's father Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1744-1817) and his fourth wife, Frances Ann Beaufort, Maria being a daughter by his first wife Anna Maria Elers. Lucy married the Irish astronomer T. Romney Robinson (1792-1882), director of Armagh observatory, and was Richard Edgeworth's last surviving child.