Alphonsine, ou la tendresse maternelle.
Paris.
Chez H. Nicolle et Compagnie, 1806.
12mo.
In three volumes. [3], vi-xxviii, 355, [1]; [2], 325, [1]; [2], 351pp, [1]. Without half-titles. Contemporary gilt-tooled red half-morocco, plain powder blue boards. Lightly rubbed and marked, spines dulled. Marbled endpapers, scattered foxing, very occasional chipping to margins.
An attractive set of an early French edition (printed in the year after the first) of one of Stéphanie Félicité, Comtesse de Genlis' (1746-1830) lesser- known romance novels.
The work does not appear to have been as popular as some of her earlier efforts, indeed, Jane Austen returned her copy of an early English edition to the Lending Library, claiming it 'did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure'.
£ 150.00
Antiquates Ref: 26287
The work does not appear to have been as popular as some of her earlier efforts, indeed, Jane Austen returned her copy of an early English edition to the Lending Library, claiming it 'did not do. We were disgusted in twenty pages, as, independent of a bad translation, it has indelicacies which disgrace a pen hitherto so pure'.
