Author: ELLIS,MRS (SARAH STICKNEY)
Title: Family Secrets or Hints to Those Who Would Make Home Happy 3/4 Volumes
Description: London: Fisher & Son, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Full Brown Leather Tree Calf Style Bindings.Two Books with Volumes 1 &3 bound in Volume Numbered 1 and Volume 2 bound in Volume numbered 2 along with what appears to be a further fourth volume beginning with Chap 1 'The Young Sculpter' though mention or title page of this fourth volume,all a little intriguing.Gilt leaf tooling to spine compartments and with gilt lined borders to both volumes to front and back.Marbled endpapers.Both front endpapers on each volume have been partially cut (no doubt to remove former owner's names) though date of July 24th 1844' is still present.Preface to volume 1 is dated 1841 and publisher's address is still that of Newgate Street London.Engraved frontispieces and title pages with further engraved plates to each volume.Bindings remain firm with no hinge weakness,some scattered foxing mostly to pre-lims and to rear of the engraved plates themselves.Sarah Stickney (Ellis) was an English Author and a Quaker turned Congregationalist. Her numerous books are mostly about women's roles in society and she fervently believed that women had a religious duty as daughters, wives and mothers to provide an influence for good that would improve society.Vol 1 328pp,Vol III 190,Vol II 191-312 and Possible Vol IV ? 308pp. Very Good .

Keywords: Mrs Ellis Fisher & Son Newgate Street


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