The Female Spectator, Being Selections from Mrs Eliza Heywood’s Periodical (1744-1746)
Heywood, Eliza
| Publication Date | 1929 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | John Lane / Bodley Head, |
| Binding | Hardback |
| Condition | Good+, sound copy |
| SKU | 24063 |
| Notes | Printed papers to boards are tanned to cream background and somewhat spotted with foxing. Tanned to Pper label. Tanned to endpapers. Very occasional scattered foxing to page margins but most pages are free form the issue. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. Prettily bound selection from The Female Spectator, widely believed to be the first periodical in English for women, by a woman (Wright and Donald, 2006; Priestley, preface to this volume). Chosen and edited by Mary Priestley, introduction by J. B. Priestley, in text illustrations by Constance Rowlands. vii,112pp+publisher’s ads. quarter bound in black cloth with printed paper label to the spine. Printed patterned papers to the boards. Illustrated title page. Further illustrations throughout. Fore-edge uncut.
