Author: [Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. 1793 - 1860]. 'By the Author of Peter Parley's Tales'
Title: LIVES Of CELEBRATED WOMEN. Parley's Cabinet Library #6
Description: Boston: Bradbury Soden & Co, 1844. 1st edition thus (American Imprints 44-2697). Original salmon-colored printed wrappers. Series advert to rear wrapper. 2 volumes (160; [2], 161 - 352 pp). Frontis & engraved title page to Part I. Wood engraving, p. 8. 7" x 4-5/8". POS to top of front wrappers. Part I spine paper mostly perished, with lower 1" of Part II lacking. Tide-line stain to upper quadrant of last quarter of text, Part II. A Good set. Contents include: Lucretia and Margaret Davidson; Mrs. Adams; Mrs. Washington; Madame de Sael; Lady Hester Stanhope; Hannah More; Mrs. Barbauld; Madame de Genlis; Josephine; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Madame de Sévigné; Mary, Queen of Scots; Elizabeth, Queen of England; Isabella of Spain; Joan of Arc. Uncommon, especially in original wrappers.

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