Richardson's Correspondence. Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.
by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
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Scarborough , North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
1804. Fine. 13 19 3.5. Full mottled tan calf. Green title plate with gilt lettering and greek key style banding on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.
A nicely bound focus on 18th century English life.
Samuel Richardson (baptised 19 August 1689 – 4 July 1761) was an English writer and printer best known for three epistolary novels: Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady (1748) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison (1753). He printed almost 500 works in his life, including journals and magazines, working periodically with the London bookseller Andrew Millar. Richardson had been apprenticed to a printer, whose daughter he eventually married. He lost her along with five sons, but remarried and had four daughters who reached adulthood, but no male heirs to continue the print shop. As it ran down, he wrote his first novel at the age of 51 and immediately joined the admired writers of his day. Leading figures he knew included Samuel Johnson and Sarah Fielding, the physicians Behmenist and George Cheyne, and the theologian and writer William Law, whose books he printed. At Law's request, Richardson printed some poems by John Byrom. In literature he rivalled Henry Fielding; the two responded to each other's literary styles.
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- Bookseller
- Martin Frost (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- FB979 (1 to 6) /6A
- Title
- Richardson's Correspondence. Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6.
- Author
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld
- Format/Binding
- Leather binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Richard Phillips.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1804
- Size
- 13 x19 x3.5cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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- Calf
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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