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The young lady's book : a manual of elegant recreations, exercises, and pursuits.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Sp-F 362
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Young women--Life skills guides.
- Young women.
- Gift books.
- Genre:
- Life skills guides.
- Gift books -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century.
- Gilt edges (Binding)
- Decorated papers (Paper)
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Southern, Alice (inscription) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Southern, William S. (inscription) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 504 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Edition:
- Fifth edition.
- Manufacture:
- [Boston] : J.D. Freeman, printer.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Published by C.A. Wells, 1836.
- Notes:
- "Preface to the American edition" (p. [7]-[8]) signed: Abel Bowen. Boston, October, 1830.
- Engravings by A. Bowen, A. Hartwell, A. Anderson, and J.C. Crossman.
- Added engraved title page printed in gold.
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection copy has a ms. inscription, in ink, which reads "Wm. S. Southern to Miss Alice Southern, a present from New York", dated 1844.
- Cited in:
- Checklist Amer. imprints, 42626
- OCLC:
- 191317809
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