Lives of Celebrated Women: by the Author of Peter Parley's Tales (Parley's Cabinet Library)

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Black cloth decorated in blind, spine gilt, joints fine, rubbed through at the spine ends & corner tips, 7 x 4 3/4 inches. Waxed yellow end papers, wood-engraved frontis & extra title page, several additional plates, foxing, tight. A couple of old ink stamps, "First Light-House District," and "Portland P. F. Fraternity." Accounts of Lucretia and Margaret Davidson; Mrs. Adams; Mrs. Washington; Madame de Stael; Lady Hester Stanhope; Hannah More; Mrs. Barbauld; Madame de Genlis; Josephine; Marie Antoinette; Madame Roland; Madame de Sévigné; Mary, Queen of Scots; Elizabeth, Queen of England; Isabella of Spain; and Joan of Arc.Samuel Griswold Goodrich, alias Peter Parley, (1793-1860); born in Connecticut. Goodrich was a prolific author and publisher of children s books. "How greatly parents have been aided and encouraged as well as children instructed and delighted through the earlier volumes of Parley s Magazine, Merry s Museum, Parley s Cabinet Library, and his numberless volumes of many kinds, who shall estimate?" Allibone. Goodrich was appointed Consul to Paris by President Fillmore. N° de ref. del artículo 9559

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