Author: [TROLLOPE, Frances]
Title: The Mother's Manual; or, Illustrations of Matrimonial Economy. An Essay in Verse, with Twenty Plates
Description: London, Treutel and Würtz, and Richter, 1833. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (6" x 9-1/2") bound in full polished mottled calf leather by Root and Son with triple gilt rules and gilt floral decorative devices in each corner of both covers, gilt-lettered and decorated spine with five raised bands, gilt dentelles and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt; [vi], 82 pages. Illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece, hand-colored title page vignette, and 18 hand-colored aquatint plates by A[ugust] Hervieu. A humorous account in narrative verse of a mother's problems in arranging suitable marriages for her daughters. Quite scarce when found with publisher's hand-coloring. Ill.: August Hervieu. Fine, clean impressions of the plates; light rubbing to hinges, labels from spine lacking. Near Fine .

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