[Rarebooks] fa: JOURNALS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF MISS BERRY 1783-1852 - 6 vols. - EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain


Mary Berry; Lady Theresa Lewis, ed.: Extracts from the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry from the Year 1783 to 1852. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1866. Second edition (revised). Three volumes in six, 8vo (22.5 cm), in full polished calf by Tout with gilt-tooled spines, boards and turn-ins, gilt-lettered morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, all page edges gilt, silk ribbon page markers; extra-illustrated.

Published in three volumes, this set has been expanded to six volumes by the insertion of approx. 175 extra plates, some folding, all with tissue guards. The elegant Tout bindings are in need of some tender loving care: three boards detached, several others starting; spines a bit rubbed and sunned with some shallow loss to the ends; vol. I repaired/recased with the original spine laid down; scattered foxing to the plates, occasional light spotting to the text leaves, otherwise quite clean and sound, firmly bound.

Mary Berry (1763-1852), eldest daughter of the heir to a Scottish fortune, began keeping a journal in Florence when she was twenty years old and kept it up for the next seventy years. During her long life she knew, or at least met, many of the leading literary, artistic and political figures of the day. She and her family had a particularly close association with Horace Walpole, whose famous collection of books and manuscripts they inherited. While perhaps best remembered for these posthumous Journals and Correspondence, Berry also published several works of social and literary history, including Works of Horace Walpole (1798) and Social Life in England and France from the French Revolution in 1789 to that of July 1830 (1831).