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FEMALE IMPROVEMENT

Name: FEMALE IMPROVEMENT
Author: Sandford, Elizabeth. Sandford, Mrs John

Book Description

Two Volumes bound as one, separate title pages. First Edition 1836 8vo, 16.5 x 11cm. Bound in original full calf, rebacked, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled endpapers. Text in very good clean condition. Ownership of Humphrey Sandford, The Isle, pasted top of title. This obscures an inscription underneath. (See Photo) A scarce publication.

Dealer Notes

Elizabeth Sandford (1797/8 - 1853)
Wrote books on how Women could improve their lives & social conditions.
Her husband was a clergyman & with the attitudes of the early 19th Century, was probably as daring as she could be.

Author Sandford, Elizabeth. Sandford, Mrs John

Date 1836

Binding Full Calf

Publisher Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman

Illustrator -

Condition Very Good

Pages viii, 205, 234pp

Price: £375.00

Offered by Paul Bostock Rare Books

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