Records of Woman: With Other Poems
by [WOMEN] HEMANS, Felicia
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- Seller
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Winchester, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
New-York: William B. Gilley, 1828. 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full brown gilt-ruled polished calf, gilt spine; 324pp. Extremities a bit scuffed, chipping to spine leather, foxing throughout textblock, slightly later clipping on the life of the author in French tipped to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound, better than often seen. Published the same year as the Boston edition (no priority). Poetry collection by the English author, the first half devoted to paeans to women, both fictional and historical. The work was her most popular, documenting "the courage, nobility, and tragedy of women's lives; embedded in their painful situations lies a critique of the domestic ideal of patriarchal values" (Paula R. Feldman, "British Women Poets of the Romantic Era" (2001), p. 278). SHOEMAKER 33524.
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- Bookseller
- Lorne Bair Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 46343
- Title
- Records of Woman: With Other Poems
- Author
- [WOMEN] HEMANS, Felicia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- William B. Gilley
- Place of Publication
- New-York
- Date Published
- 1828
- Bookseller catalogs
- Women; Great Britain; Literature Before 1900;
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Lorne Bair Rare Books
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...