A Mirror For The Female Sex Historical Beauties For Young Ladies Intended To Lead The Female Mind To

by Mary Pilkington

$600 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Printed for Vernor and Hood in the Poultry; and sold by E. Newbery, 1798. Historical Female Biography FIRST EDITION. Duodecimo 17 x 11cm , pp. 4 xxiv; 226 6 . Including a leaf of advertisements at rear. With an engraved frontispiece and many head and tail pieces in the style of Bewick. Contemporary tree calf, with gilt tooling to spine and marbled endpapers. A blue ink ownership to first blank, dated 1932. A few minor creases to corners, and some

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