SMITH, Charlotte Turner (1749-1806). The Old Manor House. A novel, London: for J. Bell, 1793, 4 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, half titles (B1 and a few other leaves in vol. IV slightly soiled, E6 of the same vol. cleanly torn), contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces (spines a little worn), with ownership label of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft and his signature to titles [Block p. 220; Summers pp. 185, 451]

细节

SMITH, Charlotte Turner (1749-1806). The Old Manor House. A novel, London: for J. Bell, 1793, 4 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, half titles (B1 and a few other leaves in vol. IV slightly soiled, E6 of the same vol. cleanly torn), contemporary half calf over marbled boards, red morocco lettering-pieces (spines a little worn), with ownership label of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft and his signature to titles [Block p. 220; Summers pp. 185, 451]

拍品专文

Considered by Walter Scott to be the author's best piece of work, this novel was partly written in 1792 when she was staying at William Hayley's house at Eartham and where she read extracts aloud to Hayley, Cowper, and the artist Romney. A second edition followed in the same year as the first, the novel was included in both Mrs. Barbauld's British Novelists series (1810) and Ballantyne's Novelist's Library (1823) with a memoir by Scott, and A. K. Newman published a "third edition" in 1822.