[Rarebooks] FS: WOMEN'S EDUCATION (or, Wilmington on the cutting edge)

[Norman Kane]

PRETTYMAN, S[OLOMON ?],  President of the Wesleyan Female Collegiate Institute.
A LECTURE ON FEMALE EDUCATION, DELIVERED BEFORE THE FRANKLIN LYCEUM, A LITERARY SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF WILMINGTON, DEL., JANUARY 5TH, 1841.
Wilmington: Porter & Naff, 1841. 
First & only edition. Original marbled boards, 6-3/4 X 4-1/4 inches, new leather spine, signatures of Thomas H. Harding. Complete with the (scarce?) inserted slip apologizing for typographical errors. Prelims lightly soiled, light rippling, small numeral at the foot of p.[3], otherwise good. 42 pages. (In 1834 several young men in Wilmington formed the Young Men's Library and Debating Society, but later changed the name to the Franklin Lyceum.  2 years after Prettyman's appearance, the guest lecturer was Edgar A. Poe. OCLC 19960606 locates only 3 copies; Yale, Dickinson and one in Ireland. Prettyman concludes that women should have every advantage of a liberal education.)
$190.00

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