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[Worcester, Massachusetts]: Privately printed, 1906. FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST PRINTING. Copy A of 85 DELUXE COPIES on Japon (and 435 regular copies). 247 x 160 mm. (9 5/8 x 6 3/8"). 1 p.l., xiv, [2], 290 pp. BEAUTIFUL RICH BROWN MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, BY THE ROSE BINDERY OF BOSTON (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers with a triple gilt-ruled border enclosing a gilt-ruled frame with intertwining garlands, raised bands, two compartments with gilt lettering, the others with gilt floral tool surrounded by rules and dots, FULL MOROCCO DOUBLURES with a green panel surrounded by a thick brown frame with repeating gilt floral and star motifs, the doublures facing green morocco endleaves followed by cream watered silk flyleaves, all edges gilt, partially unopened. Housed in a sturdy felt-lined board slipcase with morocco lip. With two portraits (including frontispiece) and a facsimile leaf. SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR on both the limitations page and frontispiece, AND INSCRIBED on the second… Leer más

New York: Charles Scribner and Company, 1867. FIRST EDITION. 225 x 145 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 1 p.l. (title), 464 pp. Publisher's full brown morocco, covers with elaborate gilt titling within attractive gilt frame, raised bands, spine gilt in compartments, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. With frontispiece and 13 steel-engraved portraits of prominent American women. ◆A hint of shelf wear (including a little of rubbing to bottom edges), a few instances of faint thumbing and the odd negligible marginal stain, but A FINE COPY INSIDE AND OUT. Elizabeth Fries Ellet (1818-77) was the first writer to document seriously the contribution of women in the American Revolution. Her interest in women's work and the domestic arts also led her to write important accounts of women artists, pioneers, and, in the present book, of members of the upper echelon of American society from colonial times to the 1860's..