The Poetical Works Of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M-------e
by MONTAGU (Mary Wortley), Lady:
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Printed for J. Tonson, J. Hodges, J. Wren, and A. Millar, 1781. 12mo (in 6s), 175 x 105 mms., pp. 180, including half-title, contemporary sheepskin, red leather label; strip cut from top margin of half-title to remove signature, front joint cracked and tender, rear joint slightly cracked, top and base of spine chipped. Lady Mary's poetry has managed to survive Saintsbury's observation that her "verse flashes with the very paste in Dodsley."
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6804
- Title
- The Poetical Works Of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W-----y M-------e
- Author
- MONTAGU (Mary Wortley), Lady:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Printed for J. Tonson, J. Hodges, J. Wren, and A. Millar, 1781
- Keywords
- poetry verse literature women
- Bookseller catalogs
- poetry;
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Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cracked
- In reference to a hinge or a book's binding, means that the glue which holds the opposing leaves has allowed them to separate,...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....