A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical beauties for young ladies. Intended to lead the female mind to the love and practice of moral goodness. Designed principally for the use of ladies’ schools. Ornamented with thirty-seven engravings, etc

Name: A Mirror for the Female Sex: Historical beauties for young ladies. Intended to lead the female mind to the love and practice of moral goodness. Designed principally for the use of ladies’ schools. Ornamented with thirty-seven engravings, etc
Author: PILKINGTON, Mrs [Mary]; [CLAITHE?, Mary Annie]; [PSEUDO-BEWICK].

Book Description

Second British edition. 12mo, pp. 240 + engraved frontispiece, and incl. title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces after Thomas Bewick. Full calf, rebacked with later spine, black morocco label, lettered in gilt. Wear and bumping to corners. Endpapers foxed and creased, POI in faded black ink of Mary Annie Claithe(?) to ffep, offsetting to title page, toned, occasional fox spots. ESTC T135840 [ref: 3538]

Dealer Notes

A pleasing second edition copy (published a year after the first) of Mary Pilkington’s educational and moralising 1799 text for young women, illustrated with numerous woodcuts after Thomas Bewick; comprising examples from the lives of prominent women from history and literature (classical, biblical, and modern) exemplifying (mostly) favoured aspects of femininity, including Queens, rulers and nobility (Cleopatra, Catherines Parr, Aragon, & de Medici, Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots), educated women (Anna Commena/ Komnene), and wives, mothers and daughters (Agrippina, wife of Germanicus, Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, Elfrida, daughter of the Earl of Devonshire, Penelope).

Author PILKINGTON, Mrs [Mary]; [CLAITHE?, Mary Annie]; [PSEUDO-BEWICK].

Date 1799

Binding Leather

Publisher London: Vernor and Hood

Condition Good+

Price: £200.00

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