2009 Mrs. Delany and Her Circle

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

In the publisher’s original cloth binding.

First edition.

Complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Edited by Mark Laird and Alicia Weisberg-Roberts, this Yale University Press publication accompanied the landmark exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art and the British Museum.

A richly illustrated exhibition catalogue exploring the life, art, and social world of Mary Delany (1700–1788), famed for her exquisite botanical collages and connections with Georgian Britain’s artistic and intellectual elite, figures such as Handel, Swift, and the Duchess of Portland.