Author: SAVILLE (George, Lord):
Title: The Lady's New-year's Gift: Or, Advice to a Daughter. Under these following Heads, viz. Religion, Husband, House, Family and Children, Behaviour and Conversation, Friendships, Censure, Vanity and Affectation, Pride, Diversions. The Tenth Edition, exactly Corrected.
Description: London: Printed for D. Midwinter, at the Three Crowns..., 1722 12mo, 152 x 87 mms., pp. 116 [117 - 120 adverts], engraved frontispiece, recently rebound in quarter calf, spine richly gilt red leather label, marbled boards; ex-library with faint stamp on verso of title-page. Saville, later William Savile second marquess of Halifax (1664/5–1700) wrote this for his twelve-year-old daughter, and circulated in manuscript to selected friends. Oxford DNB records that " It was pirated as The Ladies New-Year's Gift, or, Advice to a Daughter (1688); his name appeared in the sixth edition (1699). Although urging the conventional virtues expected of a young woman of quality he did so as a counsel of prudence, explaining how, despite the natural and legal inequality of the sexes, she should manage herself and others to her best advantage. This work remained popular for decades, reaching its fifteenth numbered edition by 1765, and was translated into French and Italian."

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