Education for young ladies
FÉNELON, François de Salignac de La Mothe-,
Instructions for the education of a daughter, by the author of Telemachus. To which is added a small tract of instructions for the Conduct of Young Ladies of the Highest Rank. With Suitable Devotions Annexed. Done into English, and revised by Dr. George Hickes. The second edition.
London: for Jonah Bowyer, 1708.
12mo (160 × 90 mm), pp. [xxvi], 371, [1], engraved emblematic frontispiece by Van der Gucht. Tiny worm track to inner margin of c. 50 pages and another to about 40 pages towards the end, minimally affecting text, but never obscuring sense. Contemporary panelled sprinkled calf, upper joint just starting. Early ownership inscriptions "Catherine Tode" and "Cath Todd" to front pastedown and title, old paper shelf label to spine. A very good copy.
Second edition, first published the previous year. Fénelon's treatise on the education of daughters in French polite society was translated for the use of the English by an anonymous friend of Bishop George Hickes for the specific use of a noble lady, her name disguised in the text as 'Antiope', and her daughters and published by Hickes. Chapters include "The use of Histories for Children", "Beauty and Ornaments", "Wit and Delicacy", "Housewifery and neatness", "Care of Health" and "Reading and Choice of Books."
£225.00
US$447.28*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008