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The ladies calling : in two parts / by the author of The whole duty of man, The causes of the decay of Christian piety, and The gentlemans calling.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BJ1609 .A45 1673
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Women.
- Women--Conduct of life.
- Penn Provenance:
- Marshall, Mary (autograph, 1692)
- Watts, Elizabeth (autograph)
- Towsey, Arthur Stanley (bookplate, inscription)
- Snellgrove, H. L. (autograph, 1884)
- Browning, Robert, 1812-1889 (inscription: "This copy belonged to Robert Browning's father who gave it to my great-grandmother. A.S.T. [i.e. Arthur Stanley Towsey]")
- Aresty, Esther B. (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 24 unnumbered pages, 141 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 95, that is, 103 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, ; 18 cm (8vo)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Printed at the Theatre, 1673.
- Notes:
- "No absolute certainty has yet been reached regarding the authorship of The whole duty of man ... The preponderance of opinion, however, is heavily in favour of Dr. Allestree." -- Halkett & Laing. Also variously attributed to Lady Dorothy Pakington, Richard Sterne, John Fell, and others. Cf. DNB.
- Signatures: [a] b-c A-S 2A-2N .
- Page numbers 89-95 (second count) repeated in sequence.
- Added engr. t.p.
- Cited in:
- Wing (2nd ed.) A-1141
- OCLC:
- 123205928
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