True Noble Women by Henry Ewart (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. shelf and edge wear on the illustrated boards. foxing and marks. binding may have been repaired. all text i clear and presentable. no date present. fairly good copy. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Without jacket, grey art nouveau decorated boards with gilt titles, no inscription. Foxing to end papers and to a lesser extent to the text. Frontispiece portrait missing the remaining 69 illustrations, mainly engravings, appear complete. A collection of eleven character sketches of notable women of the Victorian era, including Queen Victoria, Princess Alice, Elizabeth Fry, Sarah Martin, Sister Dora, Mary Carpenter, Mrs Chisholm, Mary Moffat, Mary Sewell, Mrs Carlyle and Baroness Bunsen.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Brown boards have heavy rubbing to edges, hinges, corners, board faces and spine, shelf wear with some splitting to corners. In general boards have seen better days. Page edges darkened. text tight, bright and clean. Biographies of Queen Victoria, Princess Alice, Mrs Fry, Sarah Martin, Sister Dora, Mary Carpenter, Mre Chisolm, Mary Moffat, Mrs Sewell, Mrs Carlyle and baroness Bunsen.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. Illustrated throughout, this delightfully bound first edition celebrates the virtuous women of the Victorian period. A beautifully bound first edition, giving a biographical account of eleven prominent women of the Victorian period, each praised for being 'true and noble'. The women featured include Princess Alice, Baroness Bunsen, Sarah Martin and Queen Victoria herself. Illustrated throughout with full plate and vignette engravings.In author Henry C. Ewart's preface, he foregrounds the importance of Christian faith in assessing the virtue of women, explaining that those featured in this volume 'are all in various degrees witnesses to the spiritual beauty shining out from the highest and the lowliest alike wherever there is a single-eyed devotion to the glory of God'.With a contemporary owner's inscription, dated Christmas 1888, to the half title. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bumping to spine head and tail. Contemporary inscription to half title. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.