Rare Book Monthly

Articles - August - 2017 Issue

Bedazzled by Burney: Sales of Frances Burney Books, Manuscripts & Images from the Paula Peyraud Collection

- by Maureen E. Mulvihill, Guest Writer

This month, Rare Book Hub guest writer, Maureen E. Mulvihill, has written a useful piece on continuing strong values in Frances Burney (her books, manuscripts, associated visual art). Burney, a popular 18th-century English novelist and diarist, has commanded considerable attention over the last several years, and it's high time, says Mulvihill, that collectors and specialists know more about her. Click here to read the piece!
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Posted On: 2017-08-03 04:46
User Name: mairin111

Posting for Susan Levine, Brooklyn, NY:

Hello, all, and thanks much for this interesting and useful article on 'Fanny' Burney. I am a collector of cookbooks, the older the better, but this piece caught my eye, The images amaze me, and I appreciate being educated on the Peyraud Collection, and also who's paying what for which Burney property, and where these (recently-sold) rarities now 'live'. So this article is a big assistance (a real service) to anyone doing work on Burney. I haven't read her, nor Jane Austen, since grad school, but I'm now inspired to take her up anew. Hope to run into some of you folks! Be well, Susan Levine, Brooklyn, NY. (And thank you, Mr McKinney, for the notice on the upcoming Brooklyn Book Fair, I'll be in that throng of book wonks.)

Posted On: 2017-08-06 22:07
User Name: hellerjr

I enjoyed this thorough article by Maureen Mulvihill about the artifacts of Frances Burney. I'm glad that early women writers can now get the appreciation that they deserve. I hope that more colleges and universities will teach the novels of Burney and her cohorts. When I was in graduate school in English literature, I took many courses that did not include any women writers at all. Congratulations to Dr. Mulvihill on this informative article!

Janet Ruth Heller, Ph.D.
website is http://www.janetruthheller.com/

Posted On: 2017-08-14 19:20
User Name: mairin111

Posting for L. McDiarmid, Los Angeles.
One of my medical team, a collector and Rare Book Hub subscriber, pointed me in your direction. Many thanks to Bruce McKinney's Rare Book Hub in 'Frisco for this 'bedazzling' piece on Frances Burney. I especially appreciated the author's background information on Burney's medical issues (her breast cancer surgery). As a survivor of this pernicious, nearly pervasive, disease, which often strikes women in their prime, I was given new information from the author on mastectomies in the 18th century; and I've just heard from a colleague that another woman writer of Burney's time, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, also battled the disease. And before that, the writer Mary Astell. (Three recorded examples in probably a long, long list.) I now have a new subject to investigate, and I am grateful for this historical context. LMcD in L.A.
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    Arbeiter-Illustrierte Zeitung (AIZ) / Die Volks-Illustrierte (VI), 1932-38. Est: €8,000
  • ALDE, May 28: KIPLING (RUDYARD). Le Livre de la Jungle. – Le IIe livre de la Jungle. Paris, Sagittaire, Simon Kra, 1924-1925. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: NOAILLES (ANNA DE). Les Climats. Paris, Société du Livre contemporain, 1924. €50,000 to €60,000.
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    ALDE, May 28: TABLEAUX DE PARIS. Paris, Émile-Paul Frères, 1927. €2,000 to €3,000.
    ALDE, May 28: LA FONTAINE (JEAN DE). Les Fables illustrées par Paul Jouve. S.l. [Lausanne], Gonin & Cie, 1929. €4,000 to €5,000.
    ALDE, May 28: SARTRE (JEAN-PAUL). Vingt-deux dessins sur le thème du désir. Paris, Fernand Mourlot, 1961. €1,500 to €2,000.
    ALDE, May 28: [BRAQUE (GEORGES)]. 13 mai 1962. Alès, PAB, 1962. €3,000 to €4,000.
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    ALDE, May 28: MAGNAN (JEAN-MARIE). Taureaux. Paris, Michèle Trinckvel, 1965. €3,000 to €4,000.
    ALDE, May 28: PICASSO (PABLO). Dans l'atelier de Picasso. 1960. €15,000 to €20,000.

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