Live auction - Lot 1026
[Education]
Les avis d'une mère infortunée à ses filles [...].
London, F.J. Desoer, 1787
€ 100 / 120
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Lot description
8vo: viii-193 pp. (some min. spotting and browning).
Orig. blue paper wrappers (spine reinforced with cellotape). Uncut copy.
French translation of "An Unfortunate Mother's Advice to Her Absent Daughters" (first 1761) by the English woman Lady Pennington (ca. 1720-1783). Widely read and much reprinted book on conduct for young women.
Ref. ESTC T214168. - Cp. BnF.
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