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Memoirs of the Late Thomas Holcroft Written By Himself and Continued to the Time of His Death [by WILLIAM HAZLITT] From His Diary, Notes and Other Papers

(Hazlitt, William) Holcroft, Thomas

  • Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown
  • Published: 1816 , London
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece after John Opie. viii,300; [iv], 283; [iv], 320 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Bound in contemporary half brown morocco and marbled boards, marbled endpapers and edges. Joints are slightly rubbed, but a very attractive copy, overall; with the bookplate of St. Johnsonsbury Athenaeum in each volume, and the library's embossed stamp on title pages. First edition. Engraved portrait frontispiece after John Opie. viii,300; [iv], 283; [iv], 320 pp. 3 vols. 12mo. Holcroft's classic autobiography, left unfinished upon his death in 1809, but completed by William Hazlitt using Holcroft's letters, diaries, and other papers. Although his other works are now largely forgotten, the MEMOIRS "helped found the nineteenth-century genre of working-class autobiography. Republished and annotated several times until 1925, it established Holcroft in liberal literary and political culture as an 'author sprung from the people' (Mitford, vol. 1, chap. 7), exemplifying the liberal ideology of the sovereign subject and public-spirited citizen" (ODNB). New CBEL II, 839

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