PARENTAL LEGACIES, CONSISTING OF ADVICE FROM A LADY OF QUALITY
first edition
1804
by GLASSE, S.
1804. GLASSE, S. PARENTAL LEGACIES, CONSISTING OF ADVICE FROM A LADY OF QUALITY TO HER CHILDREN, DELIVERED IN THE LAST STAGE OF A LINGERING ILLNESS...AND A FATHER'S LEGACY TO HIS DAUGHTERS BY THE LATE DR. GREGORY, OF EDINBURGH. ALSO, A NUMBER OF INTERESTING AND VALUABLE EXTRACTS FROM NEW PUBLICATIONS, AND WORKS OF MERIT. Boston: Printed for Joseph Bumstead, 1804. First edition. 299 pp. + Contents page. 12mo., leather with faded gilt leather spine label. Owner's personal contemporary bookplates and ink signatures on front endpapers. Fair to good. Spine chipped 4 inches at bottom into front board; joints cracked. Moderate to heavy foxing in the text. Verses, women's writing - fiction, religious tracts - and more. (Inventory #: 79499)