Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale)

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1941. First Edition. Quarto in orange-burgundy polished cloth; xix, 492 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates: frontispiece, portraits, index, facsimile; 23 cm Very good with minor external wear. . Hardcover. ISBN:

Handsome bookplate of one Henryk Jan Groblewski to front paste-down, with Polish word 'Nadzieja' (Hope) as title. // "Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi (née Salusbury; 1741-1821) was a Welsh writer and socialite who was an important source on Samuel Johnson and 18th-century British life. She belonged to the prominent Salusbury family of Anglo-Welsh landowners, and married firstly a wealthy brewer, Henry Thrale, with whom she had 12 children, then a music teacher, Gabriel Mario Piozzi. Her Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson (1786) and her diary Thraliana, published posthumously in 1942, are the main works for which she is remembered. She also wrote a popular history book, a travel book, and a dictionary. She has been seen as a protofeminist."—Wikipedia.