WRITING ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE
2004 · London
by MARTINEAU, Harriet
London: Pickering & Chatto, 2004. Five volumes. 8vo, pp. xlix, 248; xxvii, 298; vi, 270; xi, 236; xvi, 415. Appendices, notes, bibliography, index. Green paper over boards, spines stamped in red and gilt. [The Pickering masters.] About as new. As a utilitarian, feminist, abolitionist, free-trader, and world traveller, the author was an astute observer of her own compatriots, as well as of foreign cultures. (Inventory #: 43447)