The Ladies' Friend; being a Treatise on the Virtues and Qualifications, which are the Brightest Ornaments of the Fair Sex, and Render them most agreeable to the sensible part of Mankind.

Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1793.

Price: $350.00


About the item

[4], 79, [1]pp. Publisher's ad on final page. 12mo. Contemporary sheep-backed marbled paper boards. Provenance: Sophia Field's Book, Northfield (early owner's inscription on endpaper). Evans 25218; ESTC W19380; Clarkin 112.

Item #324867

Translation of Boudier de Villemert's L'ami des Femmes, first published anonymously in Paris in 1758; the first American edition was published by Dunlap in 1771.