Description
Estelle, A Pastoral Romance by M. De Florian, Translated by Mr. Maxey, C. Whittingham, London, 1803, 181pp, leather, 4 x 6.5, 18mo Fair condition. Front board is completely detached from binding. Wear and chipping to front and rear boards. Most of gilt borders are still intact. Tips are bumped and edges are scuffed. Chipping and cracking to spine, but still legible. Includes frontispiece. Toning, age-staining, and tea-staining throughout textblock. Includes illustrations. Please see photos. Drawing on Roman mythology, Estelle is a narrative of female desire, duty, and sacrifice - one in which the heroine's life path is dictated not by following her own heart, but by giving up her love in order to fulfill a bond of honor between her father and a man who saved him. The novel has all of the qualities the English so often marked as detrimental to young female minds. FORN-MSB-0224-TUB0010-JC244
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