[Anna Maria PORTER] Élisabeth de BON (Trad.)
Les Frères Anglais, roman traduit de l'anglais, par Mme Élisabeth de B..., traducteur de la Dame du Lac, etc. etc.[The English Brothers, or Anecdotes of the Howard family]
Chez H. Nicolle • De l'Imprimerie de C.-F. Patris|Paris 1814|10.2 x 17.4 cm|Relié
First edition of the French translation by Élisabeth de Bon, gathering in 2 volumes the 4 parts of this anonymous English novel originally printed in 1809, which according to André Marc in his Dictionnaire des romans anciens et modernes of 1819, is the work of Anna Maria Porter, younger sister of the novelist Jane Porter. The Porter sisters, contemporaries of Jane Austen and famous before the Brontës, were close to the Scottish poet Walter Scott.
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