Set of 4 Curiosities Of Literature By I. Disraeli Hardcover 1875 Widdleton

Description: CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE. BY ISAAC DISRAELI. WITH A VIEW OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE AUTHOR. BY HIS SON, THE RIGHT HON. B. DISRAELI. IN FOUR VOLUMES. FROM THE FOURTEENTH CORRECTED LONDON EDITION. Disraeli, Isaac, 1766-1848. Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881 (editor). Published by New York: W.J. Widdleton, Publisher, 1870., 1870 Volume 1 Former owner's inscription on front pastedown giving a little history of the books and what they meant to him. Dated 1938. Very Good vintage cloth burgundy covers. Fading to spine cover. Interior clean, thread beginning to show and pulling away from holes in mid book. All pages still firmly connected. Light toning. No serious defects. 447 pgs. Volume 2 Very good in vintage burgundy cloth boards. Fading to spine cover, Interior clean, spine tight and square. All pages still firmly connected. Light toning. No serious defects. 468 pgs. Followed by publishers ads in rear. Volume 3 Very good in vintage burgundy cloth boards. Fading to spine cover. Interior clean, spine tight and square. Light toning. 466 pgs. Followed by publishers ads in rear. Volume 4 Very good in vintage burgundy cloth boards. Fading to spine cover. Interior clean, thread beginning to show pages starting to pull away between 178-218, relaxed spine. Light toning. 472 pages with index. Followed by publishers ads in rear. Isaac was born in Enfield, Middlesex England, the only child of Benjamin D'israeli (1730–1816), a Sephardic Jewish merchant who had immigrated from Cento, Italy in 1748, and his second wife, Sarah Syprut de Gabay Villa Real (1742/3–1825). Isaac received much of his education in Leidel. At the age of 16, he began his literary career with some verses addressed to Samuel Johnson. He became a frequent guest at the table of the publisher John Murray and became one of the noted bibliophiles of the time. In 1797 D'Israeli published Vaurien, a romantic novel set in radical circles following the French Revolution. Conservative commentators praised the book for its mockery of radicals in England and depiction of Vaurien, who has come from France to ferment revolution. Yet they were perturbed by his depiction of a prostitute, who is kindly and was forced into prostitution to feed her family after her husband was ruined by a litigious neighbour for stealing an apple. Moreover, they were shocked by a chapter in which Disraeli launched a staunch defence of the Jewish community condemning the way Jews were treated in England.

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