[BERRY, Mary.]
A comparative view of the social life of England and France, from the restoration of Charles the second, to the French Revolution.
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828.
[uniform with:] Social life in England and France, from the French Revolution in 1789, to that of July 1830. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831.2 vols., 8vo, pp. [iii], vi-viii, 462 (bound without half-title or initial blank); vii, [i], 214. Some light spotting. Uniformly bound in contemporary half calf, spines tooled in gilt and blind, 2 red morocco labels to each, binder's tickets of John Parker, Hereford. Sides slightly rubbed. Excellent copies.
First editions. Berry, Horace Walpole's protegée and later editor, here provides a richly detailed account of English society from Mid-Georgian to mid-Victorian and of France in the same period. There are especially valuable accounts of Napoleon, Mme de Sta'l, and Princess Caroline. Both works are scarce.
£450.00
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25 July 2008