Kenrick 1725 1779 (4 results)

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1974 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 88 Language: English Pages: 88.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1974 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 168 Language: English Pages: 168.

Gebunden. Condition: New.

Tailpiece decorations at the end of most chapters; viii and 88 pp. pp. 12mo, full contemporary calf, very worn; spine largely lacking but both front and rear hinges holding. Book ticket of M. Wright [of] Lichfield (U.K.) on front pastedown and ownership signature of Mary Wright, dated July 1768 above the ticket. Modern gift presentation on front free endpaper and early ownership signature on title of another Lichfield woman. OCLC lists 3 copies of this edition: British Library (2 copies) and Michigan State. Extremely popular work, both in Britain and in the United States, first published in 1753, it went into eighteen editions by 1831�nine of them being American. A scarce book in any of the early editions.Kenrick chose as his template for this courtesy book the first part of an anonymous 1695 work The whole duty of a woman, or, A guide to the female sex: from the age of sixteen, to sixty &c. . .With the whole art of cookery, preserving, candying, beautifying, &c. Written by a lady. London: Printed for J. Gwillim, against the Great James Tavern in Billingsgate-street, 1695. Copies Located: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996,�W2054A�5 copies�British Library (2 copies), Bodleian, Harvard ,and University of Pennsylvania; OCLC adds the University of Indiana). Not in The National Union Catalog Pre-1956. No author has been found for this book. A printed note in NUC Volume 661, page 389 describes the second edition of 1696 (with the same imprint and pagination) as being �In part copied word for word from the ladies calling�. The Ladies Calling is generally regarded as being authored in part, or in whole, by Richard Allestree.Allestree�s supposed author was a gentlewoman of sound education, in contrast, Kenrick�s Lady announces herself a �Fallen Woman� who is baring her soul for the benefit of her sister women in the hopes that they do not fall into the same evil ways. Paul Fussell, Jr. in �William Kendrick�s �Courtesy Book��, PMLA, LXVI, pp. 538�540) states that it is most unlikely that Kenrick would have penned a serious courtesy book as he was one of London�s most despised, drunken, and morally degenerate hack writers. He was infamous for maliciously attacking any author who achieved a critical or monetary success; or any idea that had taken the public�s fancy. Fussell contends it is a satire on the increasingly popular genre of courtesy books sweeping the literary world in the latter half of the eighteenth century. Fussell points out that Kenrick�s �authoress proceeds to exhibit her didactic powers in several moral aphorisms which display a marked debt to the Song of Solomon and The Proverbs�.Fussell also quotes an unpublished typescript in the Boston Public Library by George Evanston Brewer, Jr. (who was compiling a bibliography of Kenrick) to support his contention �the contemplation of Kenrick�s literary career, the whole of which seems to have been an attempt to disturb the peace of the Augustans, amply demonstrates that. . .this �courtesy� book was �a masterpiece of hypocrisy.�� However, the American and British public did not recognize this as a spoof�it proved to be the most successful of the author�s efforts. In today�s parlance, he must have been laughing all the way to the bank!.