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This is a copy of the first published edition (c.1817) of the twelve romances Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837) wrote for her brother, Eugène, originally privately printed (with French text only), in limited numbers for presentation while she was still Queen of Holland, after which the plates were destroyed.  What may be a proof copy, inscribed […]

I have just put together a new list of French books and one of the highlights is two books from the library of the eighteenth-century experimental chemist, Geneviève Thiroux d’Arconville (1720–1805): her own copies, each bound in contemporary red morocco, of her translation of the Marquis of Halifax’s The Lady’s New Year’s Gift, or, Advice […]

I am currently getting ready to exhibit at the New York book fair, which takes place in a few weeks’ time. One book I shall have with me is this: It also has wonderful Jugendstil endpapers: It’s a German edition of Jane Eyre, published in Vienna in 1902. Lynne Tatlock, in her recent book, Jane […]

For some time, I’ve been aware that lithography seems to have been a useful medium for amateur women artists in the nineteenth century. I blogged once before about one such artist, Josepha Hart Gulston, and I thought I’d share a couple more examples I recently came across. This volume, entitled ‘Morning Hymn’ on the cover […]

Adelheid von Stolterfoth (1800–1875) was best known for her Rhenish poems; Goedeke called her ‘the true poet of the Rhine’. This is a copy of the first edition of The Rhenish Minstrel, published in Frankfurt by Carl Jugel in 1835, a version of her book Rheinischer Sagen-Kreis which Jugel had brought out the same year, […]

This book (a first edition, privately printed on the Royal estate at Windsor) describes itself as ‘The gift of the Queen, to her beloved daughters, Charlotte Aug: Matilda.  Augusta Sophia.  Elizabeth.  Mary.  And Sophia.  And with Her Majesty’s permission dedicated to their Royal Highnesses by the Translator Ellis Cornelia Knight’ (p. [3]).  Cornelia Knight (1757–1837)—novelist, poet, […]