BIB_ID
108305
Accession number
MA 4161
Creator
Burney, Fanny, 1752-1840.
Display Date
1782 July.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Constance Mellon Brown, 1971.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.6 x 18.5 cm
Notes
With a heading: "First Edition of Cecilia Advertisement."
There are a few corrections in Burney's hand. She also indicates through majuscles and underlining how the text should be formatted.
The bookplate of Alfred Edward Newton, previously with this item, is available in the Collection File.
There are a few corrections in Burney's hand. She also indicates through majuscles and underlining how the text should be formatted.
The bookplate of Alfred Edward Newton, previously with this item, is available in the Collection File.
Provenance
Formerly in the collections of Lt.-Col. A. E. C. Burney, Sotheby, 5 May 1930, lot 185; and A. Edward Newton, Parke-Bernet, 16-18 April, 1941 lot 293. Purchased from the New York dealer John F. Fleming as the gift of Constance Mellon Brown, October 1971.
Summary
Consisting of the draft text for an advertisement for the novel Cecilia: "The indulgence shewn by the Public to EVELINA, which, unpatronised, unaided, and unowned, past through Four Editions in one Year, has encouraged its Author to risk this SECOND attempt. The animation of Success is too universally acknowledged, to make the Writer of the following sheets dread much censure of temerity; though the precariousness of any power to give pleasure, suppresses all vanity of confidence, & sends CECILIA into the World with scarce more hope, though far more encouragement, than accompanied her highly honoured predecessor, EVELINA."
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