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London : for T. Payne; and T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1796. First edition. One of the most popular and influential novels of its time – the tale of Camilla Tyrold and her sisters, their cousin the beautiful Indiana Lynmere, and their suitors – love and marriage, darkness and light, intrigue, contretemps and mistake. The book also has probably the most distinguished list of subscribers ever to grace a novel – featuring not least the twenty-year-old Miss J. Austen of Steventon – Jane Austen, much influenced by Fanny Burney (Madame d’Arblay), specifically referring to “Camilla” in “Northanger Abbey” as one of those works “in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”. Also on the subscription list, besides a broad swathe of the aristocracy, were Edmund Burke, Sir Joseph Banks, James Beattie, George Canning, Maria Edgeworth, Warren Hastings, Richard Heber, Edmond Malone, Hannah More, Hester Piozzi, Anne Radcliffe, and Humphrey Repton.
Five volumes. Post 12mo (180 x 102mm). xlviii,390,[ii]; [iv],432; [iv],468; [iv],432; [iv],556pp. Bound in a very pleasant contemporary full sprinkled calf gilt; contrasting red and green labels; some minor external wear, rubbing, faint cracking and slight scuffing; endleaves lightly tanned; some occasional browning and mild spotting; a few minor signs of age and use; small inkstain at the end, but overall a very good and attractive set.

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London : for T. Cadel [sic], 1793. Fifth edition. Hannah More – “the strong and generous bias in favour of universal toleration, noble as the principle itself is, has engendered a dangerous notion that all error is innocent”. First published in 1791.
Foolscap 8vo (154 x 94mm). [viii],(262),[ii]pp. Bound in a neat later (twentieth-century) quarter calf; marbled sides; slight browning to edges of first and last leaves, but an attractive copy, complete with half-title and final advertisement leaf. Contemporary (1796) ownership inscription of Olivia Sayle (1771-1834). Born in remote Wentbridge, Yorkshire, Sayle was the daughter of a sheep farmer, well known for his improvements in breeding. In 1801, close to thirty years old, she married Henry Jackson, a surgeon. Their grandson, also Henry Jackson (1839-1921), was an eminent classicist, vice-master of Trinity College, Cambridge, Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, and the recipient of the Order of Merit in 1908.

£100

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London : William Tegg & Co., 1851. An attractively bound collected edition of Sheridan, with a perceptive biographical and critical introduction by Leigh Hunt (1784-1859). Includes “The Rivals”, “St. Patrick's Day”, “The Duenna”, “A Trip to Scarborough”, “The School for Scandal”, “The Camp”, “The Critic” and “Pizarro”. First published in this form in 1841.
Medium 8vo (223 x 151mm). (xvi),(154)pp. Bound, without half-title and advertisement leaves, in a pleasant contemporary half calf, richly gilt; marbled sides; sprinkled edges; a little rubbed and very slightly worn; mild spotting of binder's blanks, but internally clean and sound. Contemporary ownership inscription of Charles Woodbridge (1830-1924), a well-to-do Uxbridge solicitor.

£75

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