or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves.
Mrs. Leicester's School: or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves.
M.J.Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 1808.
First edition. Finely bound by Riviere in scarlet morocco, with raised bands and gilt titles to spine and elaborate gilt turn-ins and silk endpapers. Wood engraved frontispiece after W.Hopwood and various wood engraved tail pieces. A near fine copy with just a trace of wear to the top of the front joint.
An early piece of juvenilia principally by Mary Lamb in which a new intake of pupils arrive at Mrs. Leicester's school for girls, and she suggests they spend their first evening together relating to each other the histories of their past lives, so that 'you will not then look so unsociably upon each other.' Many of Mary's stories for the volume deal with the girls' difficulties at home with their immediate family before their appearance at the school and are to a certain extent autobiographical, reflecting Mary's troubled childhood and history of mental instability.
PROVENANCE: John Whipple Frothingham (1878-1935, noted American book collector, bookplate to front endpaper)
Stock ID: 35499
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