Intellectual Sentiments.
[WOMEN]. INTELLECTUAL SENTIMENTS explained by the study of sensations … By a Young Lady London: Printed for Joseph Booker, New Bond Street. 1809.
FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. [iv], xiv, 15-191, [1] blank; tears to gutter of title-page (but nowhere near printed surface), short closed tear to following leaf; contemporary full red grained morocco extra gilt, the sides with wide panels of flower and leaf tools, flat spine gilt in compartments, blue silk doublures with rolled borders of Greek key design, by Charles Meyer of London with his ticket; spine just a bit faded, extremities slightly rubbed else a handsome copy in its original presentation quality binding.
Rare first edition of these moralistic essays ‘by a young lady’.
The only hint at the author’s identity is tantalisingly suggested by her “reduced circumstances” and “my present embarassments”, which are both mentioned on p. xiii of the Preface. The essay itself is an attempt at moral philosophy in which the writer grapples with the feelings, instincts, objectives and satisfactions of life.
The Duchess of York was then the childless Frederica Charlotte of Prussia who had married Prince Frederick (1763-1827) in September 1791. Charles Meyer’s ticket claims that he was “bookseller & binder to the Queen & Princesses, 2 Hemmings Row, St. Martins Lane”.
OCLC records four copies worldwide, at Monash, the Morgan, the National Library of Ireland and the BL.
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