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    By Hannah More
    London   Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies
    8" by 5" xxiii, 518pp.
    A fifth edition copy of Hannah More's 'Moral Sketches'.
    By Hannah More

    1820 Moral Sketches of Prevailing Opinions and Manners, Foreign and Domestic: With Reflections on Prayer

    London   Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies
    8" by 5" xxiii, 518pp.
    A fifth edition copy of Hannah More's 'Moral Sketches'.
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    : 1kgs / : 616M11

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    Leather Binding

    Hannah More was an English religious writer and philanthropist and leading member of the second generation of the Bluestocking Society, alongside Hester Lynch Piozzi and Frances Burney. Whilst More began her career writing a number of religious dramas, including 'The Inflexible Captive' and 'Percy', she later turned her interests to a series of evangelical prose works, and in the 1790s she wrote several moral, religious and political tracts, as seen within this text. 'Moral Sketches' was More's final didactic work, and arguably the text in which she was at her most conservative and patriotic, championing the politics, religion, and manners of Britain in contrast with those of France, and indeed with the rest of Europe.

    Condition

    In a full calf binding with gilt border to the boards, and gilt detailing to the spine. Externally, generally smart. Slightly rubbed to extremities and head and tail of spine. Rubbed to joints, with small sections of loss to leather, rear joint. Lacking spine label. Marking to boards. Handling mark to centre of rear board. Spine sunned, with blind stamped title worn. Prior owner's pencil inscription free-endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally bright with scattered spotting. Pages age toned to edges with handling marks to the odd page. Ink inscription to upper extremity of page iii. Tide mark to fore edge and lower extremity page 477 to rear free-endpaper. Creasing to upper fore edge, pages 476 to 479, with offsetting to upper extremity of page 477/488.

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