SIMPSON, Arthur. Secret Memoirs of Madame Catalani . Bath: M. Gye for the author, 1811.
SIMPSON, Arthur. Secret Memoirs of Madame Catalani . Bath: M. Gye for the author, 1811. 8° (215 x 135 mm). Half-title. (Lacking final blank.) Original red paper-covered boards, spine gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt, uncut (some light wear to extremities, upper joint starting). Provenance : William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) English novelist and collector (his sales in 1883, lot 2011); Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (1847-1929) British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister (armorial bookplate on pastedown); P.G. Skinos (bookplate on pastedown); sold Sotheby’s London, 28 September 1990, lot 762. FIRST EDITION, THE BECKFORD-ROSEBERY COPY . Madame Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), an Italian opera singer, first arrived in London for the September 1806-August 1807 season at King’s Theater. On the veracity of these memoirs, Simpson reports, “the leading events were collected from our heroine’s own mouth, though she is unconscious that they are about t be published” (p.45). RARE : according to American Book Prices Current , no copy of this work has sold in the last 35 years.
SIMPSON, Arthur. Secret Memoirs of Madame Catalani . Bath: M. Gye for the author, 1811.
SIMPSON, Arthur. Secret Memoirs of Madame Catalani . Bath: M. Gye for the author, 1811. 8° (215 x 135 mm). Half-title. (Lacking final blank.) Original red paper-covered boards, spine gilt, green morocco lettering-piece gilt, uncut (some light wear to extremities, upper joint starting). Provenance : William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) English novelist and collector (his sales in 1883, lot 2011); Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, 1st Earl of Midlothian (1847-1929) British Liberal statesman and Prime Minister (armorial bookplate on pastedown); P.G. Skinos (bookplate on pastedown); sold Sotheby’s London, 28 September 1990, lot 762. FIRST EDITION, THE BECKFORD-ROSEBERY COPY . Madame Angelica Catalani (1780-1849), an Italian opera singer, first arrived in London for the September 1806-August 1807 season at King’s Theater. On the veracity of these memoirs, Simpson reports, “the leading events were collected from our heroine’s own mouth, though she is unconscious that they are about t be published” (p.45). RARE : according to American Book Prices Current , no copy of this work has sold in the last 35 years.
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