Bloom Lillian D Editors (3 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Good to Very Good. 592 pages. A few light spots on edges. Dust jacket rubbed at edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Issued as Worlds Class Ppbk 1982. 421 pp. Solidly bound copy with moderate external wear, crisp pages and clean text.

First Editions. Octavo. This six volume edition has collected most of the unpublished letters (1784-1821) of Hester Lynch Piozzi to a large group of correspondents, friends, children, scholars, actresses, servants, lawyers and business acquaintances. This work presents both sides of the correspondences in whole or part. It also is the first to expand the range of an observant woman through her letters, formerly recognized chiefly as a confidante and as a sounding board for Samuel Johnson. These letters revaluate a personality and presence that infuriated admirers and once enchanted Samuel Johnson. She wrote her letters for posterity because she knew that she had something to say which went beyond herself. She also claimed the right of literary recognition, even to the extent of choosing a literary executor and charging him to "be careful of her literary fame." She wrote more than 1000 letters. This would be her life narrative in which she is "writing in the moment." She particularly admired writers such as Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lord Chesterfield and Hugh Walpole. Each volume is bound in black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, all volumes fine to near fine with volume 5 having a small rub mark to upper board, all in dust jackets: Vol. 1-1784-1791 has a faded spine and a few very tiny edge tears; Vol. 2-1792-1798 very light wear to spine ends and along bottom edge; volume 3-1799-1804 is rubbed along the edges; volume 4-1805-1810 tiny spots of rubbing, vol. 5-1811-1816 has light wear to spine ends and a tiny edge tear. and the last volume, 6 is fine. A very handsome set from the library of both the associate editor and his wife who did the introduction to volumes 5-6. O.M. and Gay Brock with just their last name written in three volumes.…