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London: T. Cadell, 1793. Third Edition. Hardcover. Good. Volume Three Only -Fair- GOOD (?)... Front Board Missing. Most Leather Of Spine Missing, Aged, Chipped. Binding Is Tight. Content Is Clean Without Mottle Or Fox. Edges Uncut ...256 Pages. Starts At Title Page. No Frontis.
A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend of the Sisterhood. In Three Volumes. by Hayley, William - 1785
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A Philosophical, Historical, and Moral Essay on Old Maids. By a Friend of the Sisterhood. In Three Volumes. London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand. M.DCC.LXXXV. [1785] 18 cm. First edition. [ xix; 261 pages; 4 blanks]; vol 1 old small stain 220 – 225; [3 blanks; iv; 250 pages; 4 blanks]; [3 blanks; iv; 255 pages; 3 blanks]. Bound in 18th century polished vellum with gilt morocco labels, marbled endpapers, silk headbands, front hinge on volume one has an 11 cm crack but is holding. Covers to all three volumes are warped. Interior text blocks near fine. Pencil signature of B. F. Stein, dated 1919, in all three volumes. Bookseller's embossed stamp S. Drayton & Son, Exeter on front fly-leaves of Vols. I & II, and on the half-title of Vol. III. Vol. I has an additional superimposed ink stamp of William George, 26 Park Street, School & [illegible] Books. Lowndes, II: p. 1017a: "Crown 8vo 3 vols. Willet, 1101, 16s.—1793. Fonthill, 960, 1l. 4s."
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London: T Cadell, 1786. Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. The second edition of this collection of moral essays regarding the 'sisterhood of old maids', complete in three volumes bound in contemporary calf. With essays on the 'situation and treatment of old maids in general', 'the ingenuity of old maids', 'old maids in ancient history' and 'Christian and other modern old maids'.William Hayley was an English writer, who is best known for creating a biography of the poet William Cowper. Hayley's work provides an eighteenth century perspective of the morals, lifestyle and sexuality of older women. Hayley writes to the preface that he devotes himself 'with a new species of Quixotism, to the service of Ancient Virginity. It is my intention, in the following work, to redress all the wrongs of the autumnal maiden, and to place her, if possible, in a state of honour, content and comfort.' The second edition of this work, complete in three volumes. Bound without half titles.ESTC Citation No. T71562 In…
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London: T. Cadell, 1793. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 3 volumes. A very good set in a wonderful contemporary full marbled paper binding, with paper spine labels, and scarce thus. Gentle wear to the extremities, including fading to the spine labels, but internally bright and clean with all plates present. Upon close inspection, a smoker's copy. Though not the first edition, a very pleasing binding.
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