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Book Condition: Used VG+
Seller: Bygone Books

United States
About Item: New York: J. B. Ford, 1870. Hardcover. VG+. Printing of 1870, c1869. 8vo, green cloth beveled boards with gilt decorated spine and gilt author names on front cover, brown endpapers, all edges gilt, 500 pages, [8] pages publisher adverts, engraved frontis (Reuter-Stewart) and title page with tissue guard, text engravings throughout. Condition: VERY GOOD+ : light rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, tiny tear front cover, scratch to rear cover, a few faint foxing stains to tissue guard, clean and tight throughout. A lovely copy of this important book on the domestic lives of American women. Catharine Esther Beecher (1800-78), was an educator and women's rights activist who wrote a number of educational treatises and handbooks for housewives, this one with her more famous sister Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-96). The work is dedicated "To the Women of America, in whose hands rest the real destinies of the Republic.
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