Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education to cart. $31.51, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bensenville, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2010 by Gale Ecco, Print Editions.
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. to cart. $120.00, fair condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1809 by Samuel West.
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. to cart. $175.00, good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1800 by Budd and Bartram for Thomas Dobson.
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Good. Two volumes, first American editions. 12mo. in original full tree calf, spine lined in gilt and with red leather, gilt lettered spine labels. 216 and 227 pp. Bindings are well worn at the spines as well as along the edges and tips. Front board of Vol. I loose but still attached. Offsetting to the edges of the endpapers. Interiors and clean and mostly bright. A keystone early proto-feminist title (More was a contemporary of Mary Wollstonecraft), with the goal of redefinition of women's cultural virtue, rejecting the then-traditional view that a woman must achieve physical beauty and typical accomplishments with the aim of attracting a man into marriage.
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. to cart. $200.00, good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1800 by Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for E. Larkin.
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Printed by Samuel Etheridge, for E. Larkin
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1800
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English
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Good. First American edition. Two volumes in one. 12mo. Contemporary full mottled calf. Each volume with a separate title page and pagination. Small partially erased name in the top margin of the first title page. Binding is worn at the edges, front board nearly detached, else a good or better sound copy. The first American edition of this influential work by More, a leading bluestocking writer in the circle of Samuel Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick.
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education; to cart. $248.00, good condition, Sold by Second Life Books Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lanesborough, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1800 by Etheridge for E. Larkin.
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Two volumes in one. 8vo, 146, 136pp, contemporary chipped calf. Couple of pages loose. A good copy. Evans 37997. Not really an anti-feminist, More preached acceptance of God's will, but called for full education for women. Kanner p. 201. This copy is noted as being Church property, the gift of Mary Delano, August, 1808.
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. to cart. $250.00, good condition, Sold by Jeffrey Marks Rare Books, ABAA rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Rochester, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1800 by Etheridge for E. Larkin.
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1st published in London in 1799, two editions of this work were
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Etheridge for E. Larkin
Published:
1800
Language:
English
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Lacks free endpapers; some foxing and staining throughout; but very good. 2 vols in one. Small 8vo, Evans 37997. "Hannah More {1745-1833) was one of the last of the group of learned ladies who had known Jefferson...Her services to education at a time of general indifference deserve the highest praise" (DNB).
Add this copy of Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education. to cart. $4,500.00, Sold by Whitmore Rare Books, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1799 by T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand.
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1799, T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand
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First edition
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T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies in the Strand
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1799
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English
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Contemporary half calf over marbled boards with gilt and morocco labels to spines. All edges speckled blue. Measuring 192 x 118mm and collating [3], vi-xix, [1, blank], 274; [5], vi-vii, [1, blank], 322: bound without half title to volume I and leaf of adverts to volume II, else complete. A lovely, square set in a contemporary binding, with minor chipping to spine labels and small bumps to lower boards. Offsetting to pastedowns of each volume, with internal contents surprising fresh and unmarked. Extremely popular in its own time, the present title went through at least seven editions in its first year; and early editions appear regularly. The first however remains quite scarce institutionally and in trade. As of our last check on ESTC prior to the BL hack, 20 institutions reported having copies (11 of those in the U.S. ), with its last appearance at auction over a decade ago in 2009. Presently, this is the only first edition copy on the market. Arguably the most influential published work of prolific Bluestocking author, abolitionist, and education reformer, Strictures takes the contemporary British education and social systems to task for failing half the population. Echoing the structure of Sir Thomas More's argument on economic and educational disparities in Utopia, Hannah More opens her own book: "It is a singular injustice which is often exercised towards women, first to give them a most defective education, and then to expect from them the most undeviating purity of conduct; to train them in such a manner as shall lay them open to the most dangerous faults, and then to censure them for not proving faultless." Revealing herself from the start as a woman adept in philosophy, rhetoric and history, More establishes authority in front of both male and female readers. Ultimately, her book makes clear that she needs to address them both: women of rank and men with power are the only people who can cause a significant shift in how girls are trained. She provides them with compelling reasons for restructuring girls' intellectual training, as well as providing practical advice, readings, and methods for increasing rigor. A monument in the history of women's education. ESTC T48748. Feminist Companion 760. The Life of Hannah More, 275-277. Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. Biographical Sketches of the Bluestockings. ESTC T48748.