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The life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, designed by Kirk, and engraved by Ridley. In two volumes. ...
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SADE, Jacques François Paul Aldonce de (1705--1778)
[Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque. English. Abridgments. 1797]
The life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, designed by Kirk, and engraved by Ridley. In two volumes. ...
London: printed, by T. Bensley, for the Associated Booksellers, Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; Ogilvy and Son; Lackington, Allen, and Co. and J. Nunn, 1797.
2 vols ; 23.4 cm. (8º)
I: xviii, 388, [12] p., [6] pl.
II: [2], 401, [9] p., [2] pl.
An abridged translation of Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque, written by the Marquis de Sade and first published in Amsterdam, 1764--67. Susannah Dobson's popular abridgement was first published in 1775 (q.v.). The plates are by William Ridley after Thomas Kirk. With an index. The Associated Booksellers appear to have been a short-lived consortium of 1797--1800 whose other publication represented in Soane's library, Zimmermann's Solitude, 1797 (q.v.), also featured plates engraved by Ridley. ESTC t144381.
Copy Notes Large paper copy, bought from Thomas Boone in boards for 12s., 24 December 1805 (paid 25 December 1806) (Spiers Box), and subsequently rebound.
Binding C19th calf, covers with narrow gilt roll-tooled fillet, maroon morocco spine-labels. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 7s., 5 December 1829. (Archive 7/10/17).
Reference Number 2111
[Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque. English. Abridgments. 1797]
The life of Petrarch. Collected from Memoires pour la vie de Petrarch. By Mrs. Dobson. Third edition, embellished with eight copper-plates, designed by Kirk, and engraved by Ridley. In two volumes. ...
London: printed, by T. Bensley, for the Associated Booksellers, Vernor and Hood; J. Cuthell; J. Walker; Ogilvy and Son; Lackington, Allen, and Co. and J. Nunn, 1797.
2 vols ; 23.4 cm. (8º)
I: xviii, 388, [12] p., [6] pl.
II: [2], 401, [9] p., [2] pl.
An abridged translation of Mémoires pour la vie de François Pétrarque, written by the Marquis de Sade and first published in Amsterdam, 1764--67. Susannah Dobson's popular abridgement was first published in 1775 (q.v.). The plates are by William Ridley after Thomas Kirk. With an index. The Associated Booksellers appear to have been a short-lived consortium of 1797--1800 whose other publication represented in Soane's library, Zimmermann's Solitude, 1797 (q.v.), also featured plates engraved by Ridley. ESTC t144381.
Copy Notes Large paper copy, bought from Thomas Boone in boards for 12s., 24 December 1805 (paid 25 December 1806) (Spiers Box), and subsequently rebound.
Binding C19th calf, covers with narrow gilt roll-tooled fillet, maroon morocco spine-labels. Bound by Edwin Hutchinson for 7s., 5 December 1829. (Archive 7/10/17).
Reference Number 2111