British Library

In May, with only three weeks to go before publication and in desperate need of money, EP was attempting to get up a subscription for Lucy. She had (as she confided to the potential...

The book bears her name, in the form Adélaïde D. O'Keeffe: an apparent de-anglicization.

A copy of the privately printed edition, beautifully inscribed to John Richardson at London on 24 July 1805, is now British Library C. 95 b. 38. A copy once owned by Lytton Strachey (with his...

An advertisement had promised this novel for 1 June. The title-page quotation is different for each volume. The third and last volume of the British Library set comes from a second edition published...

Fittingly, perhaps, SB 's last two texts were an English prose piece and a French poem: Stirrings Still, 1988, and Comment dire (What is the Word, written in hospital while recovering from...

Many of GC 's last works were privately printed. According to the original Dictionary of National Biography, she first used this means of publication for Quagmire Ahead, 1864, then for A Plea for...

She brought this account of her life up to her husband's death. The original of this first book is not known to be extant, but a copy made by one of her descendants survives, identified...

It was probably published soon afterwards, though the title-page says 1611. Handsome copies of the title-poem without all of its accompanying or supporting poems were given as gifts to Prince Henry (eldest son of James I

ADA 's Oxford university satire Academia had a new, anonymous edition (the original owner of the British Library 's copy recorded the full date on the title-page).

The fully indexed text received a second edition in 1898 with drawings by MES .Arabella Shore willed the volumes to the British Museum (now the British Library ), but her will was never...

Both the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and the British Library in London have important manuscripts of works by Christine de Pisan , many of them beautifully illuminated. Those at the British Library, including the Queen's...

The Minerva Press edition of 1801, not listed in OCLC WorldCat or the British Library catalogue, survives in a few copies (one of which is in the University of Alberta library at Edmonton). An...

Her full name (Edith Mary Croucher Moore) appears in connection with this book in OCLC WorldCat though not on its title-page. Cassell advertised it in the TLS repeatedly until early June,

The British Library copy ends with an advertisement that mentions both SH 's Exhortation to the Inhabitants of the Province of South-Carolina and her Caution to Such as Observe Days and Times—which raises questions about dating.

It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...