Oct 17, 2011 - Sale 2256

Sale 2256 - Lot 93

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[HAYLEY, WILLIAM.] A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend to the Sisterhood. Engraved frontispieces. 3 volumes. 8vo, 19th-century 1/2 calf with morocco lettering pieces; frontispieces browned, scattered foxing in text. 19th-century bookplates and signature of William E. Nickerson. London: T. Cadell, 1793
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Third edition of a work originally published in 1785. Hayley's ostensibly sympathetic defense of spinsterhood was widely perceived as the opposite by female readers.