first edition Hardcover
1816 · London
by [Franceschini, J. and Claude Dien]
London: And sold in Paris by F. Louis, Book-seller, 1816. Hardcover. Good. First edition. Frontispiece engraving. Quarter calf and marbled papercovered boards, red morocco spine label gilt. Early owner's name ("E.H. Suydam"). joints splitting, paper well-rubbed, tops of a few pages of text bumped, a good copy. Instructive dialogues on life between Mrs. Melville, her ten year-old daughter, and her maid, in both English and French in opposing columns. Author attribution from *OCLC*, which along with *Copac* locate a single copy between them, in Germany (Staatsbibliothek Zu Berlin). (Inventory #: 293238)