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English Woman’s Family Library. A Collection of Four Titles: Women of England, Daughters of England, Wives of England, and Mothers of England. Mrs. Sarah Stickney Ellis |
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4 vols. 8vo. Uniformly bound in full dark green morocco, ornately decorated in gilt on front and back panels, the spines similarly decorated with six compartments. There is a steel engraved frontispiece in The Daughters of England (Vol. II). All edges are gilt. All four volumes are in fine condition and are contained in a contemporary brown wooden box with hinged glass front, surmounted by a gilt-lettered pediment reading “Englishwoman’s Family Library”. London: Fisher, Son, & Co., 1839-184 First edition as a complete set, with the handsome box making a very charming object. Volumes I and II were originally published in 1839 and 1842 (included here are later editions, presumably printed for this set). The preface in Vol. I is dated 1839, the preface in Vol. II is dated 1842. Volumes III and IV are first editions. The preface in Vol. III is dated 1843, the title-page of Volume IV is dated 1843 as is the preface. Sarah Stickney Ellis, 1799-1872, is best known for the Women of England and her her other conduct manuals. Her books disseminated the Victorian ideal of womanhood. The Wives of England, their Relative duties, was dedicated by permission to the Queen. The volumes are not numbered-we have followed the chronological sequence as recorded in XIX Century Fiction by Sadleir p. 125, 821, a-d. |
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