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The guide to domestic happiness

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The selection of images was prepared for the companion volume and website accompanying an exhibition, "Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era," held April 8 - July 30, 2005 in the Library's D. Samuel and Jeane H. Gottesman Exhibition Hall.

Related Resources

Denlinger, Elizabeth Campbell. Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era (2005)

NYPL. "Before Victoria: Extraordinary Women of the British Romantic Era."(2005) <http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/victoria/>

Collection Data

Names
W. G. (William Giles) (Author)
Neagle, James, 1760?-1822 (Engraver)
Whittingham, Charles, 1767-1840 (Printer)
Button, William, active 1794-1820 (Publisher)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1809
Place: London
Publisher: Printed William Button by C. Whittingham
Edition: Eighth edition
Library locations
Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
Shelf locator: Pforz (Giles, W. Guide to domestic happiness. 1809)
Topics
Marriage
Married people -- Conduct of life
Married women -- Conduct of life
Genres
Books
Handbooks and manuals
Notes
Biographical/historical: The earliest ed. listed is the 2nd, of 1777. Neither BM nor NUC lists a first.
Content: Illustration: Frontispiece engraving by Neagle.
Physical Description
Extent: Xvi, 227, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Pforzheimer copy: Bound in contemporary polished calf, blind-tooled panels on covers, gilt and blind-tooled decorations on spine, tiny old worm holes front and back.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 4351388
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12582567
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9cf5b110-c604-012f-bd16-58d385a7bc34
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