(Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1958).

FIRST EDITION OF THIS BIOGRAPHY BEAUTIFULLY RESEARCHED FROM THOUSANDS OF UNPUBLISHED LETTERS AND JOURNALS AMONG THE BURNEY FAMILY PAPERS. It includes not only her years as an author and playwright traveling within Johnsonian circles; but also continues into the previously little-known Napoleonic years, her ten years residence in France, and marriage to French exile, General Alexandre D'Arblay. In short here are provided all of the sorrows and sins and joys and triumphs of an extraordinary character now best remembered as 'the Famous Madame d'Arblay. Item #31391

First edition. With a fine frontispiece portrait reproduced from a painting by Edward Fancesco Burney. Tall 8vo, publisher's original Clarendon blue cloth, the spine lettered and with publisher's emblem in gilt, in the scarce original dustjacket. xvi, 528 pp. The book is a very fine copy, fresh and clean and looking pristine. The jacket is also handsome and fresh with just a chip and some closed tears on the front panel and a little mellowing to the spine panel.