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De Staël, Madame (Anne-Louise-Germaine). The Influence of Literature upon Society. Translated from the French of Madame De Staël-Holstein. To which is prefaced, a memoir of the life and writings of the author. In two volumes ... from the second London edition. Boston: Published by W. Wells and T.B. Wait and Co. Sold by them, and by C. Williams, Boston: J. Eastburn, New York: and M. Thomas, Philadelphia. 1813.
1813 (Date published)
De Staël, Madame (Anne-Louise-Germaine). The Influence of Literature upon Society. Translated from the French of Madame De Staël-Holstein. To which is prefaced, a memoir of the life and writings of the author. In two volumes ... from the second London edition. Boston: Published by W. Wells and T.B. Wait and Co. Sold by them, and by C. Williams, Boston: J. Eastburn, New York: and M. Thomas, Philadelphia. 1813.
8vo (177 x 115mm) pp. iv, 294; iv, 288. Bound in contemporary gilt-stamped roan, spine obscured by 20th-cent. cloth tape repair. Bookplates of MHS and Augusta Library Society, with modern ink stamp of Hand High School to front free endpaper recto, and early ink shelf marks to verso ("No.153" and "No.154").
This 1813 Boston edition of De Staël's Influence of Literature upon Society was adapted from the second London edition, and was given from Daniel Hand to the Hand Academy. Hand, who was highly educated himself, would have been able to see the importance of French thinkers like De Staël to young minds. Together with the many histories and religious tracts in the Daniel Hand Collection, it paints a picture of highly educated youth in nineteenth-century New England.
8vo (177 x 115mm) pp. iv, 294; iv, 288. Bound in contemporary gilt-stamped roan, spine obscured by 20th-cent. cloth tape repair. Bookplates of MHS and Augusta Library Society, with modern ink stamp of Hand High School to front free endpaper recto, and early ink shelf marks to verso ("No.153" and "No.154").
This 1813 Boston edition of De Staël's Influence of Literature upon Society was adapted from the second London edition, and was given from Daniel Hand to the Hand Academy. Hand, who was highly educated himself, would have been able to see the importance of French thinkers like De Staël to young minds. Together with the many histories and religious tracts in the Daniel Hand Collection, it paints a picture of highly educated youth in nineteenth-century New England.
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