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BURNEY (Charles). D'ARBLAY (Madame): - Memoirs of Doctor Burney, from Family Papers, and from Personal Recollections.

London: Edward Moxon..., 1832 FIRST EDITION. 3 volumes. 8vo, 212 x 130 mms., pp. xvi, 360;[iv], 400; [iv], 436 [437 printer's imprint, 438 - 440 adverts], lacking half titles, contemporary half calf, freen morocco labels, marbled boards (slightly rubbed), but a good to very good set. Charles Burney began composing his "memoirs" in August, 1782, and added to them as the years progressed. Fanny Burney, as is well known and by her own admission "committed to the Flames" most of his work, a suppression that she tried to justify on grounds of her father's supposed senility. The work is not, of course, reliable as a guide to her father's life, and much of its interest and usefulness lies in the reasons for her demonstrable dishonesty in misrepresenting her motives for destroying his papers. As Roger Lonsdale notes in his biography of Charles Burney, Fanny "devotes more space to the appearance of her own novels than to that of her father's works.... The Memoirs of Dr. Burney can indeed be taken as Fanny's last novel."
GBP 275.00GBP [Appr.: EURO 313.5 US$ 361.58 | JP¥ 55757] Booknumber: 10476

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DELISLE (LéOPOLD) - Catalogue des livres imprimés ou publiés à Caen avant le milieu du XVIe siècle, suivi de recherches sur les imprimeurs et les libraires de la même ville

. Caen, Henri Delesques, 1904, 2 tomes en 1 volume in-8 de XIV-354-(2) pp. couverture conservée ; CXXXI-(1)-(2)-178-(2) pp. in fine 27 planches sous serpentes légendées, reproduisants des pages d'ouvrages anciens, reliure de pleine toile-percaline grise, le tome second est imprimé sur beau papier vergé, la couverture également conservée, bon exemplaire Edition originale, de ce rare catalogue des premiers ouvrages et incunables imprimés à Caen, suivis de notes, entretiens, de libraires, conservateurs et érudits de l'époque.et comprenant 403 références bibliographiques. Delisle (1826-1910) était conservateur des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale, il acquit une renommée importante pour son étude approfondie des manuscrits enluminés et des premières éditions incunables. Exemplaire de la bibliothèque Louis FERRAND (n° 564).
EUR 173.00EUR [Appr.: US$ 199.64 | £UK 152 | JP¥ 30785] Booknumber: 20712

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