Size 6 3/4' x 4 3/4'.The story is set in the Ptolemaic era of Ancient Egyptian history and revolves around the survival of a dynasty bloodline protected by the Priesthood of Isis. Bound in 1/8 contemporary leather, gilt ruled bands, green faux leather boards, gilt titles, marbled edges. This carefully stored book has minor chips and slight shelf wear.

o/w quite clean and sound.īernhard Tauchnitz, Leipzig, 1889 Hardcover Tauchnitz Copyright Edition. I with a small chip to the leather contents with generally mild toning, occasional scattered light browning and foxing, most noticeable on the first and last few leaves of each vol. I and V cracked, with the front board of vol. Jane Austen read and admired Burney's novels, and she 'took the title of her first novel from the last pages of Cecilia and speaks with admiration of Miss Burney in a remarkable passage in Northanger Abbey.' (DNB) Bindings slightly rubbed at edges and joints spines a bit rubbed, some chipping to the spine heads front joints of vols. Lyster, 'has been the result of PRIDE and PREJUDICE Remember if to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you owe your miseries, so wonderfully is good and evil balanced, that to PRIDE and PREJUDICE you will also owe their termination'. Johnson had corrected it.' (Kunitz & Haycraft) An interesting incidental note is the appearance near the end of the book of a phrase that would gain immortality in the hands of a slightly later author: '' The whole of this unfortunate business,' said Dr. A follow-up to her hugely successful Evelina, Cecilia is 'less unstudied' than the earlier work, 'with greater polish, and a 'literary quality' that gave rise to the report that Dr. The first edition of Fanny Burney's second novel, recounting the trials and tribulations of a wealthy young orphan who, launched into society, must guard her fortune and virtue from the depredations of assorted suitors. With the misspelled catchword on page 235 of vol.

Bound in full speckled calf with gilt-lettered spine labels page edges dyed yellow. SOURCE OF THE TITLE PRIDE AND PREJUDICE BURNEY, FRANCES.

Cecilia by Frances Burney