Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. (in two volumes); with A View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune
by Hannah More
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
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Bordentown, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
Philadelphia: Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson, 1800. First American edition. Leather_bound. Good. Two volumes, first American editions. 12mo. in original full tree calf, spine lined in gilt and with red leather, gilt lettered spine labels. 216 and 227 pp. Bindings are well worn at the spines as well as along the edges and tips. Front board of Vol. I loose but still attached. Offsetting to the edges of the endpapers. Interiors and clean and mostly bright. A keystone early proto-feminist title (More was a contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft), with the goal of redefinition of women's cultural virtue, rejecting the then-traditional view that a woman must achieve physical beauty and typical accomplishments with the aim of attracting a man into marriage.
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- Bookseller
- The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- E23699
- Title
- Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. (in two volumes); with A View of the Principles and Conduct Prevalent Among Women of Rank and Fortune
- Author
- Hannah More
- Format/Binding
- Leather_bound
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1800
- Keywords
- education, women, womens studies, female, social, feminism
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
Terms of Sale
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
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About the Seller
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
Biblio member since 2005
Bordentown, New Jersey
About The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ)
The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
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- Calf
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