A Description of Millenium Hall and the Country Adjacent: Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants, and such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections as may excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love and Virtue, by a Gentleman on his Travels

Author(s): Scott, Sarah (1720-1795); Montagu, Lady Barbara

Binding:	Hardcover
Volume Condition:	Very Good
Dust Jacket:	No
Edition:	2nd Edition
Language:	English
Publisher Name:	J[ohn] Newbery
Publication Year:	1764
Publication Place:	London (at the Bible and the Sun in St Paul's Church-Yard)
Book ID:	000289
Catalogue(s):	Beautiful Books ◇ Classic Literature

Second, corrected ed. 12mo. Engraved frontis, 2 pages of publisher's adverts at rear. One signature starting, some browning, corner of advertisment leaf torn away, touching letters, a few small tears, some spotting and staining. Contemporary full calf (re-backed, corners repaired, rubbed and scuffed), gilt letters and tooling & raised bands to spine. Provence: John Ward, Stoke, 1787 (signature on front free endpaper); Dorothy Ward (old signature scored through on title); lines of poetry in copperplate manuscript to verso of title, a few margins and rear endpapers. The work, first published in 1762, is set in a female utopia and has come to be seen as a significant early feminist text. At one time the work was attributed to Oliver Goldsmith but scholars now seem to agree that his role was to revise the text for the second edition.

Keywords:

leather calf feminism oliver goldsmith