The Daughters of England: their Position in Society, Character & Responsibilities

Book Description

London: Fisher, Son, & Co., [1842]. [viii], 400, [12]pp., 12mo.. Engraved frontispiece after Allom (foxed), with an undated publishers’ catalogue at end. Original blind-stamped cloth, spine gilt. Apparently the true first edition, in the simplest of the three bindings available: the catalogue at the end notes that the cloth issue was 10s, silk 12s, and morocco 16s. The bibliography is a little puzzling: Sadleir, XIX Century Fiction, 820, describes a copy of the cloth issue, collating [iv], 396pp., and with the preface and publishers’ catalogue dated January 20, 1842. The present copy has an undated publisher’s catalogue, but the preface is dated January 10, 1842.

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