ELLIS, Sarah, née Stickney. The Mothers of Great Men. FIRST EDITION. Richard Bentley. 1859
Half title, front. port of Letitia Bonaparte & one additional plate; occasional light spotting. Untrimmed in orig. royal blue morocco-grained cloth, front board dec. with ornamental oval in gilt, spine lettered in gilt; v. sl. rubbed.
¶A very nice copy of one of Mrs. Ellis's most unusual titles. 'All that I dare to hope ... [is] to bring into greater prominence, that maternal influence which has helped to form the characters of the great men of the present day'. (Preface.) Among the subjects are the mothers of Napoleon, Henry VII, John Wesley, Cowper, Lord Byron, and Goethe.
Stock #86962
£280
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
