28. [Graham (Elizabeth S.)] "Theresa Tidy". Eighteen Maxims of Neatness and Order, first edition, presentation copy , inscribed by the author to John Graham, July 19, 1817, original printed wrappers, 12mo, J. Hatchard , 1817; Another copy, sixth edition, 12mo , 1818, bound with Voyage to Lacuta, dedictated to Theresa Tidy by Lemuel Gulliver, Jun., etched frontispiece and 5 plates, small 8vo, J. Hatchard , 1818, contemporary red straight-grained morocco tooled in gilt and blind, g.e., with the bookplate of Thomas Henry Graham ; A Selection of Fables, 2 copies, first editions , original limp cloth, 12mo, J. Hatchard and Son, 1837, 8vo and 12mo (4)
est. £500 – £750
Included in this lot is an autograph manuscript translation into French of Eighteen Maxims by the author's son Reginald, 1832, written in an 8vo notebook and illustrated with an amusing ink portrait of Teresa Tidy and eight other designs. The manuscript concludes with an Epitaph for Theresa Tidy in a different hand, supposedly written by "one of the young community who were annoyed by the system she proposed", apparently by Elizabeth Graham herself, signed with initials "ESG MM".