[EDGEWORTH, MARIA]. Tales and Miscellaneous Pieces. London: Printed for R. Hunter; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Co.; [& thirteen others], 1825.
FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. In fourteen volumes; leather-bound; hardcover; small octavo (17 x 10.5 cm); pp. [6], 345; [8], 301, [1]; [6], 317, [1]; [6], 358; vi, 418; [6], 381; [6], 373, [1]; [6], 337, [1]; [6], 405, [1]; [4], 354; viii, 394; [4], 434; [4], 359, [1]; [4], 334. English text. Bound in half morocco; smooth spines with gilt bands and titles; marbles paper-covered boards; each volume with an engraved title. Printed by Thomas Davison. Contents are as follows: Volume I: Castle Rackrent; Essay on Irish Bulls and Modern Griselda; Volume II: Belinda volume I; Volume II:I Belinda volume II; Volume IV: Leonora, with Several Letters on Several Subjects and an Essay on Self-Justification; Volume V: Popular Tales; Volume VI: Popular Tales and Dramas; Volume VII: Tales of Fashionable Life volume I; Volume VIII: Tales of Fashionable Life volume II; Volume IX: Tales of Fashionable Life volume III; Volume X: Tales of Fashionable Life volume IV; Volume XI: Patronage volume I; Volume XII: Patronage volume II; Volume XIII: Harrington and Ormond; Volume XIV: Ormond. Condition: VERY GOOD. Bindings tight and secure having been rebound in black morocco, volume IV with some repairs to the joints. Interiors largely very well-preserved. Armorial bookplate to front pastedowns.
Notes: This is a rare and complete first collected edition (Sadleir 784 - "of extreme scarcity"). Engraved vignette on all title-pages. Maria Edgeworth was a highly prolific writer of adult and children's literature and very influential in the development of the English novel.
