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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Title on half-title page: Hints for a young princess.
Preface by the author to this fifth edition serves as eulogy for Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, for whom the book was originally written in 1805, and who had died in childbirth in 1817.
Bound in blue leather with blind stamped frame decoration and gilt rule frame on front and back cover. Spine has gilt title and bands with blind stamped floral decoration.
Inscription on fly leaf of volume 1: "From the author to her dear friend Lady Arland, Nover. 25, 1819, Baley Wood."
Fore-edge paintings: v. 1. The Cheesecake House. Hyde Park -- v. 2. Kensington Palace.
Bookplate of Mrs. Weaver inside front cover of both volumes.
Letter regarding the fore-edge books from Clifford Weaver housed as Separated Materials. Letter contains Clifford Weaver's signature.
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Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 21 cm
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Call Numbers:
- LC1421 .M76 1819
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OCLC Numbers:
- 1052955874
5622622 [Invalid]