The Alchemist
by [HUGHES, MARY ROBSON]
Price: $150.00
- Bookseller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books
- Seller Inventory #: 8553
- Publisher: London: Printed for William Darton,
- Date published: 1818.
Book Description
London: Printed for William Darton, 1818. By the Author of “Ornaments Discovered;”. . . “Aunt Mary’s Tales for her Nephews and Nieces,” &c. 206, [10]pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece, with a publisher's catalogue at end. Contemporary (not publisher’s) half calf, spine attractively gilt. First edition, with the alchemist displaying the archetype of learning put to wrong uses. The Dartons H765(1); Osborne, p. 266, noting that this novel formed a part of Florence Nightingale's nursery library.
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