LIMITED EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF MARIA EDGEWORTH, ONE OF ONLY 100 SETS PRINTED, ELABORATELY EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED AND HANDSOMELY BOUND IN THREE-QUARTER MOROCCO-GILT
EDGEWORTH, Maria. The Novels. London: J.M. Dent, 1893. Twelve volumes. Octavo, three-quarter brown morocco, elaborate gilt-decorated spine, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt, uncut. $1900.
Limited edition, number 20 of only 100 sets printed on Holland Paper, of the works of influential Anglo-Irish author Maria Edgeworth, also handsomely extra-illustrated, bound in three-quarter morocco-gilt.
"Maria Edgeworth is unrivalled among Irish women as an intellectual, working both as a literary writer and (in the broad sense) as an educationist. Her practice of textual allusion was at once dense and deft, and her reading exceptionally broad… [H]er influence on younger writers, for instance the Banim brothers and Charles James Lever, is obvious. Anthony Trollope's first two novels are written clearly in an Edgeworthian mode. Less obviously so, the debt owed by William Makepeace Thackeray to her hero-less social novels has been remarked on" (DNB). With engraved frontispieces, titles, illustrations, and headpieces.
Plates in excellent condition. A beautifully bound, fine set.