Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World/ A Father's Legacy to his Daughters/ Thoughts on Female Education
Published by Boston: John W. Folsom, 1791
- Hardcover
- Used





Seller: Lee Madden, Book Dealer, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.Lee Madden, Book Dealer
AbeBooks seller since September 22, 2003
Condition: Used - Good
US$ 3,995.00
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketItem description from seller
Good HC, no DJ. Full leather over boards, no external titles; three works bound together, each with a title page. Clean, square covers and spine; some rubbing wear along cover edges but not worn through to boards; some chipping at spine tail with rear board exposed at lower inner corner; 2 inch split at front cover/spine tail joint; tightly bound; upper half of front free end paper missing; clean interior with slight general age darkening; leaves remain supple; few interior leaves slightly dog-eared at fore corners. 24mo, 188 pp (paged 102, [2], iv, [1], 6-62, [2], 24 pages) This edition, cf, Early American Imprints, 1st series (Evans) #23790; OCLC #55822171. Gregory and Rush separately cataloged by Evans #23422 and #23747. Founding Father Benjamin Rush signed Declaration of Independence, was a physician, politician, social reformer, educator and humanitarian.
Seller Inventory # 17556
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World/ A Father's Legacy to his Daughters/ Thoughts on Female Education
- Author
- Lord Chesterfield [Philip Dormer Stanhope] w/ John Trusler/ Dr. [John] Gregory/ Benjamin Rush
- Publisher
- Boston: John W. Folsom
- Publication year
- 1791
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Seller catalogs
- Education, History, Sociology
Lee Madden, Book Dealer
Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since September 22, 2003
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Member of Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association (VABA). Selling on ABE since 2003. My books are General Stock, including Fiction, Poetry, Biographies, Mysteries and other Literature, though I concentrate on Politics, History, Sociology, Economics, Law, Religion and scholarly works generally. I try to keep in stock works on Labor, Radicals, Progressives, Populists and Socialism. I also stock Vermont and neighboring states histories, literature, tracts and ephemera.
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Lee Madden, Book Dealer
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