![Item #242025 Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft Written By Himself and Continued to the Time of His Death [by WILLIAM HAZLITT] From His Diary, Notes and Other Papers. William Hazlitt, Thomas Holcroft.](https://jamescumminsbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/242025.jpg?width=768&height=1000&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1414049475)
Edited by Hazlitt
Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft Written By Himself and Continued to the Time of His Death [by WILLIAM HAZLITT] From His Diary, Notes and Other Papers.
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816.
Price: $750.00
About the item
First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece after John Opie. viii,300; [iv], 283; [iv], 320 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Edited by Hazlitt. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Joints are slightly rubbed, but a very attractive copy, overall; with the bookplate of St. Johnsonsbury Athenaeum in each volume, and the library's embossed stamp on title pages. New CBEL II, 839.
Item #242025
Holcroft's classic autobiography, left unfinished upon his death in 1809, but completed by William Hazlitt using Holcroft's letters, diaries, and other papers. Although his other works are now largely forgotten, the MEMOIRS "helped found the nineteenth-century genre of working-class autobiography. Republished and annotated several times until 1925, it established Holcroft in liberal literary and political culture as an 'author sprung from the people' (Mitford, vol. 1, chap. 7), exemplifying the liberal ideology of the sovereign subject and public-spirited citizen" (ODNB).
