The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-viii, [1], vi-lxxii, [1], 2-344; [3], vi, [3], 4-470 pp. Half later blue calf over marbled boards with the spines in five compartments, a purple and a brown morocco label on each spine, gilt lettering and decorations on the spine; all edges marbled. A signed binding, with L. Tilley's name on the foot of the spine in gilt. L. Tilley was a bookseller, printer, and stationer in Ledbury. Bound without the half-titles. With a memoir by Lucy Aikin. Blain, Clements, and Grundy 58-59. Lowndes 111. NCBEL II 639. Oxford DNB, William McCarthy, "Barbauld [née Aikin], Anna Letitia [Anna Laetitia] (1743–1825)". Lowndes cites the 1826 London edition. These volumes published in the same year as Barbauld's death, with a memoir by her niece. Barbauld is now remembered as an influential writer of the Romantic era. She was instrumental in influencing Samuel Taylor Coleridge's literary career until their falling-out. In her day Barbauld was praised for her writings for children, but she also published a literary anthology specifically edited for female readers. Barbauld could read Greek and Latin, and took an interest in literature, zoology, and poetry. Aikin, her niece, added dozens of poems to this collection of her works that were not previously published. An important anthology which includes an essay on women's rights. Near Very Good. Item #000012550
A bookplate on each front pastedown, one leaf missing a corner. Volume one lacks the frontispiece.
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