[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Early American Children's Book Imprint

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:  WAS $350    NOW $250 NET

THE YOUNG LADY'S PARENTAL MONITOR: CONTAINING, I. DR. GREGORY'S 
"FATHER'S LEGACY TO HIS DAUGHTERS." II. LADY PENNINGTON'S "UNFORTUNATE 
MOTHER'S ADVICE TO HER ABSENT DAUGHTERS." III. MARCHIONESS DE LAMBERT'S 
"ADVICE OF A MOTHER TO HER DAUGHTER" Hartford: Nathaniel Patten, 1792. 
First Edition. Small quarto (3-7/8" x 6-1/4") in contemporary calf 
leather with a gilt-lettered red morocco spine label; 164 pages. 
Frontispiece engraving of an adult with children gesturing to a young 
entity in the sky. Evans 25067. Rosenbach 163: "Lady Pennington's 
opinions on the education and upbringing of girls are extremely 
interesting. She is very scathing on the subject of novel reading." Mild 
aging to the text. Very nice copy. (#004959)        $250.00

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