A Family Tour Through the British Empire; Containing some account of its Manufactures, Natural and Artificial Curiosities, History and Antiquities; interspersed with Biographical Anecdotes, particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of Youth

Wakefield, Priscilla
Publication Date 1805
Publisher Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey,
Binding Hardback
Condition Good+, sound copy
SKU 25095
Notes Binding is clean and sound though rubbed to very corners where is is a little exposed board. Slightly rubbed and scuffed to the surface. Some faint pencil notes to endpapers and blank pages and occasional pencil lining to margins. Slight age toning to pages mainly to prelims and to edge of page margins. Map is intact with no tears though there is some creasing across the corners.

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Hardback. Full period leather binding. 443pp+notes and publisher's catalogue. Original calf spine with slightly later calf binding. The rebacking has been done many years ago. Black label with gilt titles to spine appears original. Fold-out, colour map, appears hand-coloured, of the British Empire. Contemporary owner’s name neatly to title page in ink. Priscilla Wakefield was from a Quaker family. She supported, and wrote about, a range of women’s issues including, in 1798, Reflection on the Present Condition of the Female Sex which was published by Joseph Johnson. Johnson was a radical, who also published works by other women writers including Mary Wollstonecraft and Anna Laetitia Barbauld as well as other radicals and dissenters such as Wiliam Godwin, Joseph Preistley and Erasmus Darwin.
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