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Broadview Press Inc, 2001. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
Recueil de Poésies, Extraites des Ouvrages d'Helena-Maria Williams, Traduites de l'Anglais par M. Stanislas de Boufflers . . . et par M. Esménard by WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA - 1808
by WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA
Recueil de Poésies, Extraites des Ouvrages d'Helena-Maria Williams, Traduites de l'Anglais par M. Stanislas de Boufflers . . . et par M. Esménard
by WILLIAMS, HELEN MARIA
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Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808, 1808. First and only edition. Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies. Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.. 8vo, contemporary French red straight-grain morocco, blue watered silk doublures with gilt-decorated borders, boards, spine and inner dentelles, gilt lettering, a.e.g. Errata. A French translation of more than 30 poems by Helen Maria Williams, including ones on her real and imaginary travels: "Sonnet sur la ligne équinoxiale"; "Sonnet sur l'oiseau du tropique"; "Les glaciers des Alpes"; "Hymne, composé au milieu des Alpes"; and "Nouvelle Américaine." French scholar, writer and friend of Williams, Charles Pougens (1755-1833) arranged the translations specifically for this sole edition; the majority of the poems were not published in English until 1823.
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- Format/Binding Jackson, Romantic Poetry by Women, Williams 8(c); OCLC records 15 copies
- Book Condition Used - Edges a little rubbed; fine copy.
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First and only edition
- Publisher Paris: Fr. Cocheris Fils, Libraire, 1808
- Date Published 1808