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London: Printed For Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, And John Taylor, 1835-37. 3 Volumes. small 8vo. pp. xlvii, 312; 1 p.l., 394; 2 p.l., 353, [1]. additional engraved titles. contemporary half chagrin, top edge gilt (slightly rubbed, engraved titles foxed). First Edition. These three volumes form part of biography section of Dionysius Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopaedia'. Mary Shelley contributed the lives of Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Machiavelli, among others.. 1st Edition. Hardcover.

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, 1835-37 In three volumes. xlvii, [1], 312, 15pp, [1]; [4], 394; vi, 353pp, [1]. With engraved title pages. Original publisher's blind-stamped green cloth, lettered in gilt to spines. A trifle rubbed and marked. Spotting to titles, remnants of label to FEP of Vol. I, seemingly that of a Women's book club. William St Clair's copy, with pencilled bibliographical note in his distinctive hand to FEP of Vol. I. The sole edition, in original state, of volumes 86-88 of Dionysius Lardner's 'Cabinet Cyclopaedia', with contributions from Sir David Brewster, James Montgomery and most notably Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Her contributions, numbering at least six and possibly more, include biographies of Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pulci, Monti and the sixteenth-century Neapolitan female poet Vittoria Colonna. The Lives have recently been the subject of literary study, with Greg Kucich suggesting that 'although… Read More