MRS. THRALE; Afterwards Mrs. Piozzi / A Sketch of Her Life and Passages from her Diaries, Letters, & Other Writings / Edited by L.B. Seeley / with Eight Illustrations after Reynolds, Zoffany, & Others
London: Seeley and Co., Limited, 1908. Reynolds, Zoffany, & Others. New Edition. Decorative cloth. Thick 8vo, green decorative cloth with gilt lettering on spine and blind-stamped decorations with borders on front cover, illustrated with 8 B&W plates of the Thrale Circle by Reynolds, Zoffany, & Others, x + 336 pages + [20] Ads for Seeley pubications. Very Good. Item #9018
Solid, clean copy with scattered foxing to some pages and fore-edges; slight edgewear to the cloth; minor bumps to some corners; bright and clean illustrations. No previous owner's markings.
Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; 1741 or 1740 – 1821), from a prominent Welsh family, was a diarist, proto-feminist, author and patron of the arts. She is an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century English life. Her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786), and her diary Thraliana--published posthumously in 1942--are the main works for which she is remembered.
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