PETRARCA, Francesco. Petrarch's View of Human Life. Printed for John Stockdale. 1791
xiii, [2], 16-359, [1], [8] index, [2]pp ads, half title. 8vo. Ink splash to one leaf otherwise a v.g. clean copy, lower corner of Z4 torn not affecting text. Full contemp. sprinkled calf, gilt banded spine, red morocco label; sl. chip to foot of spine. Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Headfort.
¶ESTC T144902. First English Edition of this translation by Susannah Dobson, dedicated to Andrew Stuart, Esq. In 1775 Dobson published her first book, a Life of Petrarch, which derived in part from de Sade's Mémoires pour la Vie de Petrarch. Frances Burney found her 'coarse, low-bred, forward, self-sufficient, and flaunting'. (Blain, V. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English, 1990.)
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