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ADVICE FROM A LADY OF QUALITY TO HER CHILDREN IN THE LAST STAGE OF A LINGERING ILLNESS. Translated from the French by S. GLASSE. Two volumes in one. Publisher: John Mycall for William Green, Newbury-port, Boston. Third edition. Description: Contemporary leather binding with raised bands and red pastedown gilt label on spine. Dedication to the Queen, Translator's Preface and advertisement proceeds text. Condition: Good. Covers show 200+ year wear. Chip from top edge of spine, hole on upper spine on back cover. Previous owner names on inside cover and free endpaper. Pages are browned and foxed, but tight to the spine. Back endpaper and cover have moisture stain and holes from separating free endpaper from back cover. Not insect damage. (see photos) Pages: Vol I: 191, Vol II: 196 Size: 3.75" x 6" Weight: 8 ozs Unusual Newbury-port imprint; this work first published in Boston in 1804. A book of conduct, sometimes attributed to Louis Antoine de Caraccioli, translated by Samuel Glasse and very popular in America. Consists of a series of "conferences", most addressed to two sons, but with one addressed to a daughter, "Your sex requires the utmost circumspection; what among men is reputed a venial fault is an absolute crime with us". Check out my other current book listings. I will combine shipping for the best rate. Ask if you have questions. No reserve. You bid, it sells! This book is from the estate of Caroline (Caro) Weir Ely (1884 - 1974). She was an accomplished bookbinder, printmaker, etcher, and painter. She was educated in both New York and Paris and continued to work, maintaining a studio, even after she married and became a mother, a rare occurrence in the early 1900s. She settled in Old Lyme, Connecticut, a town known for its art colony. Like her father Julian Alden Weir a noted American Impressionist painter, she often painted near her home. Following her father's death, she sometimes printed his etched plates, producing posthumous editions of his landscape prints. Wikipedia
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