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London: Geo. B. Whittaker. 1825. First edition. First edition. Author's presentation copy. Rebound in nineteenth-century purple cloth with gilt red morocco title label to the spine. Illustrated with 3 hand-coloured plates (complete). A very good copy, the binding square and tight with rubbing to the boards, fading to the spine and loss to the title label. The contents with two plates trimmed to the margin at the foot (causing the loss of the imprint to one) and scattered foxing to the text pages (heavier to pp.25-49), are otherwise in good order, the hand-coloured plates remain bright. Inscribed in ink to the head of the title page: "To Mrs Valpy with the / authoress's kind regards / Jan 4 / 1826". Priscilla Wakefield (1751-1832) was a Quaker philanthropist, social reformer, proponent of female education and writer of numerous works on natural science. She was also the author of the notable feminist work "Reflections on the Present Condition of the Female Sex; with… Read More