Brooke, Frances
£1,434
Rare Books, Maps, Manuscripts & Photographs
Auction: 10 January 2007 at 11:00 GMT
Description
The Excursion. By Mrs Brooke; Author of the History of Lady Julia Mandeville and of Emily Montague. London: T. Cadell, 1777. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, half-titles, contemporary half calf with marbled sides, red morocco lettering pieces, occasional light spotting, small stain to B10-11 of volume 1
Footnote
Note: Frances Brooke (1724-1789), novelist, playwright, essayist and translator, was a member of the vibrant literary scene in late eighteenth-century London that included Samuel Johnson, Samuel Richardson, Anna Seward and Hannah More. In 1755-56 she edited a weekly periodical, The Old Maid, and in 1763 published her first novel, The History of Lady Julia Mandeville. David Garrick's failure to stage her play Virginia: a Tragedy led her searingly satirical portrait of him in The Excursion.
Provenance: Henrietta Makdougall, contemporary inscriptions on endpapers