first edition
1787 · London
by Piozzi, Hester Lynch
London: A. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1787. First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xv, [1], 397 (i.e. 399); xi, [1], 424; nice copy in full contemporary mottled calf, neatly rebacked, red morocco labels on gilt-paneled spines; extremities a little rubbed else a very good, sound set. Contains the uncommon errata slip bound in at the back of volume II, but lacks the preliminary blank leaf in volume I. Fleeman 88.3L/1; Courtney & Smith, p. 168: "The poems ... consist of Latin verses to Dr. Lawrence, translation of them by Mrs. Piozzi, and translations from Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae, mainly by Johnson but with some lines by Mrs. Piozzi..."
(Inventory #: 53379)