SAINT PIERRE, Jacques Bernardin de. Studies of Nature, translated from the French ... carefully abridged. With a copious index. By L.T. Rede. Printed by J.W. Myers, for W. West. 1798
[iii]-xvi, 448pp. 8vo. Without the half title. Contemp. half mottled calf, gilt spine, green label. v.g. With signature on title of E. Ann Oakes.
¶ESTC T150137. Abridged from the three volume translation of Etudes de la nature. BL only in UK + 2 copies in US in ESTC. Women, we are assured, have only one passion, which is to love 'so they should concentrate on the occupations which properly belong to them', viz. millinery, midwifery and the like.
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