Saint Pierre, Jacques Henri Bernardin deBiblio.com
[MINIATURE BOOK]. SAINT-PIERRE, BernadinBiblio.com
Paul and Virginia & The Indian Cottage.
1825réf. 13415London: printed by Glasgow University Printers Andrew & John Duncan for Jones & Co 3 Acton Place Kingsland Road 1825. Translated from the French by Helen Maria Williams. Engraved frontispiece and title page. 9.6 x 5.7 cm. 64mo. contemporary full blue calf with double gilt fillet border on each side around a border of fleurons in blind spine decorated in gilt with rules fleurons and leaf and tendril tool in each of 3 compartments burgundy morocco spine label tooled in gilt speckled edges. A very good handsome copy.Helen Maria Williams was a British poet abolitionist and French revolutionary sympathiser - her translation of Paul et Virginie was first published in 1795 and went through several editions. With the ownership inscription on the verso of the free endpaper and the title of Elizabeth Oakden of Froxfield Bedfordshire. Apart from the fact she was a reader we only know that her dates were 1792-1869 and he is buried in Eversholt graveyard. Handsomely bound miniature copy with a contemporary female ownership inscription printed by Glasgow University Printers, Andrew & John Duncan, for Jones & Co, 3 Acton Place, Kingsland Road unknown
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