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A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines

Published 1840
Author Costello, Louisa Stuart
Title A Summer amongst the Bocages and the Vines. By Louisa Stuart Costello. Author of “Specimens of the Early Poetry of France.” In Two Volumes.
Publisher’s imprint London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1840.
Printer’s colophon London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Bangor House, Shoe Lane.
Format 8o; 2 vols: pp. xi. 411(I), viii. 358(II); plates; illus.
Sources NSTC 2C38963; Theakstone
Copy inspected Google NYPL
Notes

  1. T.p. epigraph: [“La Nature se joue du pinceau des hommes: lorsqu’on croit qu’il a atteint sa plus grande beauté, elle sourit et s’embellit encore.” Audubon.]; from Chateaubriand, Voyage en Amérique (1827).

  2. Dedicated ‘To the Lady Burdett’ [Sophia Burdett, née Coutts (1775-1844), wife of Sir Francis Burdett, fifth baronet (1770–1844; ODNB)].

  3. Editions: 1841(2nd).

  4. Reviews: Monthly Rev. 3.1, n.s. (Sept. 1840): 75-82; British and Foreign Rev. 13.26 (1842): 486-508.

  5. Full text links: Google vol. 1, vol. 2
Genre Narrative
BTW record no. BTW1041
Region France

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