CAMILLA:; or, A Picture of youth by By the author of Evelina and Cecilia. In five volumes.
London: T Payne, at the News-Gate and T. Cadell and W Davies (successors to Mr. Cadell in the Strand), 1796. First Edition. 8vo, 390,432, 468, 432, 556. Bound without half-titles in all volumes in 3/4 brown calf and marble boards, spine label. Very minor foxing. Bookplate of Alice G. C Clark on the flyleaf of volume 1 and other pastedowns. A very good set. CBEL II, 527. Item #59974
Burney (1752-1840) was known as a diarist, novelist and letter writer. She achieved fame for her novels Evelina (1778) and Cecilia (1782). .Burney's third novel Burney maintained a friendship with Hester Piozzi and was appointed keeper of the robes to Queen Charlotte. She later married a penniless French Catholic refugee and moved to France to attempt to reacquire the D'Arblay estates.
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