![[Item #57073] Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons. Maria EDGEWORTH.](https://lornebair.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/57073.jpg?auto=webp&v=1644796895)
Harry and Lucy Concluded; being the Last Part of Early Lessons
London: Printed for R. Hunter, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1825. First Edition. First printing. 12mo (18cm) in 4 volumes. Contemporary red morocco, with marbled paper over boards, all edges sprinkled red; plain endpapers; vol. I: xviii,287pp; vol. II: [ii],340pp; vol. III: [ii],319pp; vol. IV: [ii],336pp. Armorial bookplate of Richard Prime and bookseller's ticket of Symington's, Harrogate, in all volumes. A straight and tight set, though rubbed, spines faded, splits to front hinge of vol. IV, internally clean: Very Good.
Edgeworth was an early and influential Irish author of didactic, realist fiction for children, as well as novels for adults.
She began writing about Harry and Lucy in Early Lessons (1801) and Continuation of Early Lessons (1814). She was paid £400 for Harry and Lucy Concluded, the final installment in their saga. Richard Prime was a mid-nineteenth-century MP for Western Sussex.
Price: $400.00
