The Intimate letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788 - 1821.
Language: English
Published by John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1914
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Bygone Books, Bluffton, SC, U.S.A.Bygone Books
AbeBooks seller since September 21, 2025
Condition: Used - Good
£ 25.69
Quantity: 1 available
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No edition statement, printed at the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh. 8vo, brown paper-backed boards / olive green backstrip, 396 pp, 30 b&w plates. Condition is GOOD+ / no jacket: boards are rubbed, esp. at corners, spine head and tail have small tears, front hinge sl. loose (webbing just exposed at ttile page), pages are clean excepting a few pages that have faint foxing. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1741 - 1821), known mostly as Mrs.Thrale, was a good friend and correspondent of Dr. Johnson.
Seller Inventory # 14961
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Intimate letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788 - 1821.
- Author
- Knapp, Oswald G. [editor]
- Publisher
- John Lane, The Bodley Head, London
- Publication year
- 1914
- Condition
- G+
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Literary Biography / Letters, Women Writers
Bygone Books
Bluffton, SC, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 21, 2025
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| Item | 5 to 14 business days | 3 to 6 business days |
|---|---|---|
| First item | £ 3.40 | £ 9.07 |
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Store description
Bygone Books is a small closed shop of fine used and collectible books and paper ephemera; with specialties in 18th & 19th century literature, Literary history & criticism; Jane Austen; Children's Literature; Great Britain; Domestic Arts [Cookery, Gardening, Etiquette, Manners & Mores, etc]; and Postcards and Sheet Music.
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Sheet Music, Postcards, Literature / Poetry, Gardening, Domestic Arts, Cookery / Cookbooks, Great Britain, Children's LiteratureSeller's business information
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Bygone Books
Owner: Deborah Barnum
317 Bamberg Dr, Bluffton, SC 29910
802-343-2294
bygonebooksvt@gmail.com
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