Shelfmark
Em.2.11 - Em.2.15
Author
Uniform title
[Works]
Title
The works of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. : Including her correspondence, poems, and essays. / Published, by permission, from her genuine papers..
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : printed for Richard Phillips, no. 71, St. Paul's Church-yard., 1803..
Physical description
5 v. : ports., facsims., geneal. table ; 18 cm. (8vo)
Language
Includes essays written in French.
Note
1st edition, edited by J. Dallaway.
Note
Frontispiece portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu in vol. 1 ("Published June 1. 1803 by Richard Phillips" etc.).
Note
Volume 1 includes facsimile of letter from Alexander Pope to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.
Note
Includes index in volume 5
Note
Manufacturers' details on title-pages verso: [Vol 1, 5]: "Printed by W. Flint, Green Arbour-court, St. Sepulchre's."; [Vol. 2, 3]: "T. Davison, Printer, White-friars."; [Vol 4]: "T. Gillet, Printer, Salisbury-square.".
Provenance
Late 19th or early 20th century armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton; Eton School Library bookplate on facing flyleaf, recording Hatton's donation; Eton School Library stamp on second flyleaf recto. (In all five vols.)
Provenance
Bookseller's price and codes on first flyleaf verso; likewise on lower flyleaf.
Binding
Contemporary tree-calf over millboard. On both covers, a gilt initial or monogram; narrow squares, board edges tooled with a hatcheting-effect gilt roll. Spine smooth, divided into panels by transverse gilt fillets; onlaid labels of green morocco (gilt titling and vol. number over green morocco). Textblock trimmed and ?sprinkled. Endpapers comprising marbled paper (pastedown and flyleaf) and plain wove paper (two flyleaves).
Copy-specific note
Vol. 1: Manuscript ?signature in a 19th century hand, struck through in the same hand, unread. Vol. 3: the same signature on title-page, unread. All vols.: other signatures on title-page, unread.
Subject
Subject
English poetry 18th century.
Subject
English prose literature 18th century.
Subject
English essays 18th century.
Subject
Turkey Description and travel Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Dallaway, James, 1763 - 1834 editor.
Added entry--name
Phillips, R. (Richard), 1767 - 1840 (Richard), Sir, publisher.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Davison, Thomas, ? - 1831 printer.
Added entry--name
Gillet, Thomas printer.
Added entry--place
England London.
Language code
eng fre
Identifier
B50920