Author: HARLAND, Marion
Title: Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
Description: New York, John R. Anderson & Henry S. Allen, 1882. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Mustard cloth with gilt and black lettering and extensive black pictorial stamping. 454pp, (4pp ads). Very good. Mild binding wear, else internally tight and nice. A tight, quite attractive early printing ("Twentieth Thousand") of this most prudish and euphemistic of Victorian birds-and-bees manuals, with later chapters covering such topics as "Housekeeping and Home-Making," "Dress," "Gossip" and so on. Sex advice as comically vague as only the Victorians can make it!.
Keywords: Americana
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Title: Eve's Daughters; or, Common Sense for Maid, Wife, and Mother
Description: New York, John R. Anderson & Henry S. Allen, 1882. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Mustard cloth with gilt and black lettering and extensive black pictorial stamping. 454pp, (4pp ads). Very good. Mild binding wear, else internally tight and nice. A tight, quite attractive early printing ("Twentieth Thousand") of this most prudish and euphemistic of Victorian birds-and-bees manuals, with later chapters covering such topics as "Housekeeping and Home-Making," "Dress," "Gossip" and so on. Sex advice as comically vague as only the Victorians can make it!.
Keywords: Americana
Price: US$ 95.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 45215
- Book number: 45215
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