The Women of England, Their Social Duties, and Domestic Habits by Mrs. Ellis [Sarah Stickney] - 1839

Fisher, Son, & Co., 1838. Re-bound; cover almost entirely detached from binding (binding still firm), sunned/soiled/rubbed/bumped, corners quite bumped, spine quite sunned, 1 1/2" tear top spine/rear board junction, otherwise intact; edges quite sunned/soiled; ffep lightly soiled, light foxing sprinkled throughout; binding tight; interior intact and clean, except where noted.. hardcover. Good.

GB: Fisher ?1860s. Full blue leather with ornate gold decoration on spine and front cover. Top edge gold. Clean tight text with occasional spotting. Spine a little scuffed.. 20th Edition. Hardback. VG-/No DW.

London: Fisher, Son & Co, 1839. 16th Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Half-leather over marbled boards with raised bands and six ornately decorated compartments down the spine. Rubbed and slightly edge-worn, nonetheless showing very well indeed: firm and square, strong joints, bright gilt lettering. Contents clean, tight and secure with no pen-marks and not from a library so no such stamps or labels, just mildly age-toned and an old former owner bookplate to the pastedown. Note: the book doesn't give any publication date, that said the preface is dated 1839. Size: 8vo (200mm x 130mm); collation: pp. 356. Thus a very good copy in very tidy and well preserved condition.

London; Fisher and Son, 1939 ? Very good small hardcover with leather spine. 476p.b&w illus. "It is not necessary to this picture, that park gates should be thrown open, and footmen stationed on the steps of the hall, the mistress should first greet her guests".

London;: Fisher, Son & Co./The Caxton Press. Good. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait. 476pp., Engraved vignette title page and regular title page, illustrated with a total of 14 plates. This work discusses the characteristics of the women in England, their influence, education, dress and manners, conversation, domestic habits, public opinion, habits and character and more. Bound in full calf, edges stamped in blind with single gilt rule, rasied bands with compartments fully gilt decorated, black morocc spine label gilt, wear to spine ends and corners with two small splits to.

New York: D. Appleton & Co, 1839. Hardcover. Good. pp ix, [13]-275. Publisher's brown cloth, somewhat puckered and stained; ownership signature of John Taylor Pratt, dated 1839, on front pastedown; half of front free endpaper torn out. Binding sound, text unmarked but heavily foxed. A solid reference copy. Ellis authored many books about the role of women in society, emphasizing their role as a stabilizing moral influence.

Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, no date, preface dated February 1839. First edition. Engraved portrait, engraved extra title vignette and13 engraved plates [ only 12 called for in the "List of Plates" - the plate opposite p.325 "An Evening Hymn" is the additional]. 8vo (8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches), 476-pages. Contemporary half burgundy calf over marbled boards. Spine gilt extra in 5 compartments with lettering piece, all edges marbled. Foxing to portrait and extra engeaved title. Contemporary signature on front fly, later bookplate also on front fly. Very good and most attractive on the shelf.

Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1839. First American edition. 2 vols. in one. 8vo. 199pp.; 212pp. Publishers embossed rose cloth with paper spine label. Cloth soiled, scattered foxing. A knick on spine. A good copy. A Quaker who became a Congregationalist, she wrote mostly on women's matters in society.

ELLIS, Mrs. (Sarah Stickney). THE WOMEN OF ENGLAND, THEIR SOCIAL DUTIES, AND DOMESTIC HABITS. Philadelphia: E.L. Carey and A. Hart, 1839. Small 4to. Cloth. x, 199 pages; (iv), (9)-212 pages. Second American edition. [American Imprints 55503]. First published in 1838, this edition contains two volumes in one. Through t and her other books Mrs. Ellis sought "solely to the cultivation of habits th I have confined my attention--to the minor morals of domestic life". Spine sunned, paper spine label chipped, some foxing to edges of leaves, still a bright copy.

Philadelphia: Herman Hooker, 1841. Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition. Publisher's cloth gilt. Foxing, and some modest chipping at the crown, a very good copy.