[Rarebooks] For Sale: Life in the Grey Nunnery, first edn.

[Norman Kane]

RICHARDSON, SARAH J. ("AN ESCAPED NUN."]   LIFE IN THE GREY NUNNERY 
AT MONTREAL. AN AUTHENTIC NARRATIVE OF THE HORRORS, MYSTERIES, AND 
CRUELTIES OF CONVENT LIFE.   Boston: Damrell & Moore, Printers, 
1858.  The rare first edition of this work which has been often 
reprinted.  Octavo, original cloth decorated in blind & lettered in 
gilt.  A well-preserved copy.  End paper foxed, old name, &c, on 
prelims, light stain at top of the margin of the first few pages. 
Frontispiece-portrait. Of this rare link in the chain of 
anti-Catholic publications in the mid-19th Century (sometimes 
referred to as "The Protestant Crusade") OCLC cites only 2 copies - 
Trinity College & Ga. State Univ.  RLG cites a copy at Huntington, 
although "Boston" is accompanied in the description with a question 
mark for some reason.  Miss RIchardson was born in 1835, which would 
make her about 23 at the time of publication. She was a native of 
St.John's, New Brunswick, Canada.    $350.00         (Trade Discount, 10 %.)

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