A royalist divine exhorts women to modesty, compassion, affability, and piety, as well as explaining the duties of virgins, wives, and widows.
Publication Info
Publisher: At the Theater
Edition: Third impression
Date Published: 1675
Place Published: Oxford
ISBN: n/a
Details
Condition: Fair
Signed: No
Dust Jacket: No
Jacket Condition: n/a
Details: [22], 270 p. 19 cm. Title page vignette, head pieces, illustrated letters. Full leather. Rebacked with original boards and some new endpapers. Some rubbing to boards and worn corners. Frontispiece missing. Ink Inscription on front pastedown endpaper states "This book belonged to Lady Elizabeth Boyle daughter of the Earl of Burlington and wife of Sir H. Bedingfeld given by her great grandson to his wife Mary Woodward Bedingfeld August 1849." Small ink mark on fore-edge. Pin holes in margins of pp. 39-42, chip in bottom of p. 43 with some loss of text, missing p. 45-6, p. 161-2, p. 189-90, p. 259-60.