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Letters on the improvement of the mind : addressed to a young lady.

Accession number
PML 142069-70
Creator
Chapone, Mrs. (Hester), 1727-1801.
Published
London : Printed by H. Hughs, for J. Walter, 1773.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed.
Anonymous. By Mrs. Chapone, written as letters to her niece.
Signatures: A⁴ B-N⁸ O⁴; [A]²[-A2] B-P⁸ Q⁴[-Q4, blank?].
Description
2 v. (vii [i.e. viii], 200; [2], 230 p.) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
"Emma Eliz. Corbet, March 27th, 1775"; M.L. Coats; Margaret Glentanar (Victorian bookplate, with motto in open book: "non dormit qui custodit"); from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Contemporary green morocco(?), gold-tooled, with diamond medallion of cream morocco inlaid on both panels and gold-tooled, possibly in Dublin.
Classification
Department