Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1958. Dark blue cloth. pp xvi, 528 + frontispiece portrait + 4 plates. Index. Appendix listing Burney manuscripts. Small ink name at front, page edges lightly yellowed, else fine. Price-clipped jacket has orange spine sunned to yellow, with shallow chip across head (no lettering lost), small creased tear to front panel, VG otherwise. Canadian author won a Governor-General's Award for this comprehensive scholarly study which draws extensively on unpublished Burney material. 1.5 kg parcel. ; Octavo