1792 "A New Year's Gift; Containing Admonitions to Young Ladies Respecting Religious Duties and Moral Virtues"

Item Details

A 1792 publication of A New Year’s Gift: Containing Admonitions to Young Ladies Respecting Religious Duties and Moral Virtues, Stated Under Three Principal Heads: I. Truths Indispensably Necessary to be Known by All. II. Means to Shun the Vices to which they are Mostly Exposed. III. Virtues, which they Ought to Practice in Order to be Happy in this World, and Blessed in the World to Come. Noted as ‘the Second Edition, Revised and Corrected. The Former Being Entitled, The Virgin’s Nosegay. To Which is Added, Advice to a New Married Lady by F- L’. This rare book is inscribed by ‘To the Irish Ladies’ by its editor and was printed by R. Cross, Dublin, in 1792. It is fully leather bound on board with raised bands to its spine.

Condition

- to poor; loose and breaking hinges with binding exposed; chipping and brittleness to covers and spine; warped front cover; heavy discoloration to endpapers; tanning and discoloration to pages; exposed boards at corners and spine ends; some chipping to pages.

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Item #

17LOU015-012