The Juvenile Travellers: Containing the Remarks of a Family During a Tour Through the Principal States and Kingdoms of Europe: With an Account of Their Inhabitants, Natural Productions, and Curiosities
Wakefield, Priscilla
| Publication Date |
1824 |
| Publisher |
Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey, |
| Binding |
Hardback |
| Condition |
Good+, sound copy |
| SKU |
26680 |
| Notes |
Leather is a little rubbed to the very edges and with some softening to the corners. Some dull, dark marks to the boards (ink and finger marks). Modern bookplate to endpaper. Some spotting to prelims but text is clean. Binding is sound. |
Description
Hardback. Travelogue written in a lively manner more like a novel with fictional travellers, the Seymour family, to appeal to young adult readers of the time. Full period leather binding. 422pp+notes. Full calf binding. Black labels to spine lettered in gilt with gilt ruled bands and some blind stamped motifs. Gilt ruled borders to boards. Gilt dentelles. Paper, handwritten with a prize dedication dated 1832, has been pasted to the recto of the free front endpaper. The school appears to be the Priory, Christchurch. Priscilla Wakefield was from a Quaker family and was descended from the Barclay family of bankers and was he maternal aunt of Elizabeth Fry. 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 Priestly and Erasmus Darwin.
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