Item #19928 Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies. Hannah More.
Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies.

Essays on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies.

Chambersburg [Penna.]: Printed by Dover & Harper, for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1796. Second American edition. Original marbled boards rebacked with white paper (with typewritten titling), 6.5 x 4 inches, 84 pages. Front hinge starting; some occasional damp-staining, corners and edges of the boards a bit rubbed; some soiling; a good copy. Item #19928

An example of Carey’s practice of partnerships with far-flung printers, this uncommon revival of the essays of Hannah More one of the several Dover & Harper imprints issuing from this Cumberland Valley press for Carey in 1796-1797. First published in London in 1777, with a Philadelphia edition first appearing in 1786. Evans 30814; ESTC W32061.

Price: $250.00

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