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Cecilia, or Memoirs of an Heiress. By the Author of Evelina. The third Edition ...

London: Printed for T. Payne and Son ... and T. Cadell ... 1783.

Five vols, 12mo., pp. 299, [1]; 285, [3]; 321, [3]; 293, [3]; 321, [3], with the terminal blanks in vols II-V; a very good copy, in contemporary tree calf, spine gilt in compartments with a lyre tool, red and black morocco labels, some insect damage to spine of vol III; ownership signatures of Mary Sandys (1785), signed again as Mary Hillsborough in 1790.

£250

Approximately:
US $312  €291

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Third edition, published in March 1783. This is one of only a small number of novels in the library purchased by Mary Sandys before her marriage to Arthur Hill in 1786.

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