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PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Etat : New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Leather / Boards. Etat : Good. First American Edition. 107 Pp. First American Edition, 1803, After The First English Edition Of 1802. Original Leather Spine, Marbled Boards, Extremely Worn, Spine Label With Gilt Title Mostly Chipped Away, Original Watered Paper Boards, Original Endpapers. Simple Bookplate Of Jane C [Cary] Harrison [Of Glentivar And The Moorings, 1797-1883], With Her Name Surropunded By A Border Of 8-Pointed Asterisks, At Top Of Front Pastedown, With Antique, Circa 1835/1840 Inscription "To Polly H Randolph" [Her Daughter Mary Harrison Randolph, Of Woodstock, 1819-1904] Below, With Her Name "Mary H Tabb, Woodstock" Written Below That In A Similar Hand. Quite Worn But Complete. Later Bookplate On Contemporary Blank; This Can Be Removed If That Is Preferred. Scarce. Per Wikipedia, Mary Pilkington (Born Mary Susanna Hopkins, 1761-1839) Was An English Writer. She Wrote Non-Fiction Including A Biographical Dictionary Of Art And An Edition Of Goldsmith, And Books Of Fiction And No-Fiction Moral Instruction For Children. Pilkington Was Born In Cambridge, England. Her Father Died When She Was 15 Years Old And She Went To Live With Her Grandfather. The Man Who Had Taken Over Her Father's Medical Practice Eventually Became Her Husband In 1786. While He Was Away Working As A Naval Surgeon, She Took Work As A Governess. She Published Over Forty Novels In The Years Leading Up To 1825, Many Of Them For Children. She Also Wrote For Periodicals, Notably The Lady's Monthly Museum — Which She Left Over Poor Compensation[5] — And The Lady's Magazine.…