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Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
Irish & British Imprints Related to Women. Three Titles in Four Volumes, 1773-1800.
Including:
1) Hester Chapone's (1727-1801) Letters on the Improvement of the Mind Addressed to a Young Lady, Dublin for Exshaw et al., 1773, 12mo, two volumes in one, contemporary half leather with marbled paper boards, ESTC T05971 (no U.S. copies);
2) Hannah More's (1745-1833) Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education, Dublin: by William Porter for Pat. Wogan, 12mo, 1800, stipple-engraved author portrait frontispiece, half-title present, later half buckram, ESTC T155773; and
3) William Alexander's (d. 1783) The History of Women, London: Printed for Strahan & Cadell, 1779, first edition, two large quarto volumes, untrimmed, both copies with deckle edges throughout; bound in uniform half cloth, ESTC T36567. (4)
