Original stories from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness / by Mary Wollstonecraft.
Type
Book
Authors
Category
Main Collection pre-1900
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Publication Year
1791
Publisher
Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-Yard, United Kingdom
Description
(TIT) Issued without a half-title.||(CON) A6, B-H12, I6, Contents. A1r Title, verso blank; A2r-A3v Preface; A4rv Introduction; A5r-A6v Contents; B1r-I5r Text; I5v-I6v Publisher's Catalogue. With a contemporary ink signature on the title page.||(REF) CBEL II, 656; Windle p. 9; Todd 3; see estc.bl.uk entry describing the 1791 printing as having plates designed and engraved by William Blake, This Chawton House Library copy does not have these illustrations. It has been rebound at some point which may, or may not, account for this difference but the descriptions otherwise match.||(BIN) Modern full calf, spine with blind decorations, gilt-ruled and lettered, maroon label.||(DES) Title page loose.||(PUB) Revised text, the first edition with the author's name on the title page.
Biblio Notes
(1v.) viii, [4], 177, [3] p. ; 8vo.
Number of Copies
1