A BEAUTY

The Life of a Lover.

London: Printed for G. & J. Robinson, 1804.

Price: $7,500.00


About the item

First edition, with half-titles. xi, 320; 336; 314; 363; 298; 376 pp. Vols. 1-4, Printed by S. Hamilton, Shoe-Lane, Fleet-Street. Vols. 5 & 6 "T. Davison, White-Friars.". 6 vols. 8vo. A BEAUTY. Bound in contemporary Irish marbled calf, with red morocco spines. Bookplate of Nicholas Browne (d. 1816), Mount Hazel (County Galway.) Fine, small irregularity on the upper cover of volume one. Garside & Schowerling 1804, 38; Wolff 3998 (note).

Item #240930

First edition in an Irish binding of Sophia Lee's partly autobiographical epistolary novel. It was translated into French by Madame de Salaberry and published under the title Savinia Rivers, ou le danger d'aimer.