RETROSPECTION

by Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi

$1,200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

London: John Stockdale, 1801. First edition of the first world history ever written by a British woman William McCarthy, 211 . Very good. Item #53804 An evocative, philosophical, and narrative-driven history, RETROSPECTION took an experimental approach to the genre, attempting to cure it of its stuffiness. Panned by one contemporary critic as History cooked up in a novel form reduced to light reading for boarding

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