Warner Rebecca Editor (6 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Chicago: The Poetry Foundation formerly The Modern Poetry Association. Very Good. 2003. First Edition. Softcover. First edition. Magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.5" x 9"], last numbered page is 180 [first numbered page is 126] [plus ads at the rear]. Mailing label [with name/address blacked-out] else Near Fine or better copy. .cel.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 112 pages. Spanish language. 7.75x4.50x0.25 inches. In Stock.

8vo. v[i], 214[2]pp. Modern brown cloth gilt, new eps, uncut/partly unopened. Occasional very light spotting.

8vo, pp viii, 303, [1, advert], uncut, slightly later binders' cloth with printed paper label, this a little chipped, slight fading to the spine, a very good clean sound copy,FIRST EDITION, a vaulable colletcion of original literary correspondence from the Eighteenth Century asumed to have bene in the posession of Rebecca Warner ' Of Beech Cottage near Bath', sister of the popular Bath writer Richard Warner, to whom several of the letters are addressed. The original of the collection and Warner's editorship has intrigued commentators since publication, the biographical contributiosn being very sparse, With an intriguing female ownership lable of Eliza Newton, with an earlier presentation to her as Eliza M Cottle, by her aunt G C Self. Though we have not found a definate link it seems likely that this is the fmaily of the Bristol publisher of the Lyrical Ballads.…

London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817. Black half leather, gilt lettered and decorated, and marbled paper boards, 303 pages, page (304) an ad. Letters from twelve historical figures, with "Biographical Illustrations" including Matthew Prior, Lord Bolingbroke, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, "Mrs. Montague", Rev. William Gilpin. With an engraved armorial bookplate, "Charles Henry Grove", and a contemporary ink signature "Philippa Grove" on the title. Edges and boards rubbed, a Very Good copy.…

8vo, pp. viii, 303, [1] advertisement; contemporary half calf, rather rubbed, and with head of spine chipped; but sound. First and only edition. Rebecca Warner was a novelist as well as editor: her Herbert Lodge (1808) had also been printed by Cruttwell and published by Longman. The following year she published a selection of historical letters 'illustrative of the Herbert family', but little seems to be known about her. the letters printed here seem to have come from a limited number of sources, mainly the Fortescue, Gilpin, Hartley and Fowke families. There are numerous letters from Pope to William Fortescue, and an intriguing one from Benjamin Franklin to David Hartley. Of the letters by Samuel Johnson printed here, one (a letter to Francis Fowke of 1783) is known only from this book. There are also letters by Elizabeth Montagu, and odd additional material, such as a couple of pages on the pictures at Houghton Hall (pp. 284-6) and a character of Voltaire by Frederick the Great of Prussia (pp. 272-4).…