Edgeworth, Charles Sneyd (4 results)

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1815 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 253 Language: English.

Condition: Very Good. 1815. leatherbound. 8vo. good clean copy in original half morocco marble sides. . . . .

Condition: Very Good. 1815. leatherbound. 8vo. good clean copy in original half morocco marble sides. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

8vo, engraved portrait frontispiece and pp. iv, 223, [1] colophon; portrait offset onto title page, a few minor stains in the lower margin, else clean; in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, joints cracked, and inartistically repaired inside with cloth tape (sound, but not very pretty); new endpapers, preserving the original bookplate (see below). First edition, presented by Maria Edgeworth to her stepmother's brother. This is a biography of Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont (1745-1807), Catholic priest and relation of the family at Edgeworthstown, co. Longford, by Maria's half-brother Charles Sneyd Edgeworth (1786-1864). The Abbé Edgeworth had been confessor to Louis XVI, and attended him on the scaffold; he later became confessor to Louis XVIII, but died from a fever after attending prisoners at Mittau. It seems that this volume, published at as the opening words have it 'this moment of universal peace, when the see the Bourbons re-established on the throne of their ancestors', was actually edited by Charles's elder half-sister, Maria. The title page bears a (slightly cropped) inscription her hand: 'To Captn. Francis Beaufort R.[N.] from his very sincere & affe[ctionate] friend The Editor'. Since Charles announces himself as the author on the title page, even if Maria were presenting the book on his behalf, it is hard to believe that she would have written the word 'editor', so one can only assume that she had a hand in bringing the book out. Captain Francis Beaufort (whose bookplate is also in the volume) had a long and intimate connection with the Edgeworth family. His elder sister Frances became, in 1798, the fourth wife of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and thus stepmother to Maria, who was in fact a year older than her. By 1815, when this book was published, Francis Beaufort was a notable figure in the British navy: he later went on to great eminence as an Admiral and a knight, and was the deviser of the Beaufort Scale, which he was already using as early as 1805. Much later, in 1838, he married Maria's half-sister, Honora, so in the end he was doubly related to the Edgeworths. An intriguing pencil note on pp. 148-9 of this book is probably in Beaufort's hand. Against the story that the duchesse d'Angoulême nursed the Abbé in his final illness, is written: 'Louis Bousset the Abbé E's servant did not confirm this statement when I saw him at Versailles'; and then: 'But it is represented in a picture'. Maria's handwriting is attested in a note on the endpaper, written by Marilyn Butler for Roger Lonsdale, dated 12 February 1971. Professor Butler was not only an expert on Maria Edgeworth, and author of a biography of her, but was married to Sir David Butler, a descendant of the Edgeworths.