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A treatise on the education of daughters. / Translated from the French of Fenelon, Archbishop of Cambray.

Accession number
PML 152427
Creator
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, 1651-1715.
Published
Boston : Perkins & Marvin, 114, Washington St., 1831.
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
"The treatise here presented to the public, discloses a complete system of education, at once philosophic in its principles, and practical in its details ... Those passages in the original, which, from their reference to doctrines and ceremonies peculiar to the Church of Rome, would be to many readers, either unintelligible, or productive of erroneous impressions, are here omitted."--Advertisement, p. [i]-vii, signed: W.C.D.
"Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1831, by Perkins & Marvin, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Massachusetts."--T.p. verso.
Copyright 1831 by Perkins & Marvin.
"Valuable books published by Perkins & Marvin, 114 Washington Street, Boston."--p. [1]-12, 1st count.
PML copy: imperfect p. v-vi (Advertisement).
American binding ; booksellers description laid in.
Description
vii, [2], 10-182 p. ; 15 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Gilt-stamped green morocco ; in slipcase.
Classification
Department