From Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
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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. Seller Inventory # 789F26
Bibliographic Details
Title: True and Noble Women
Publisher: Wm. Isbister, London
Publication Date: 1888
Binding: Cloth
Illustrator: Not Stated
Condition: Very Good Indeed
Edition: First edition.
Book Type: book
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