Thoughts upon female education : accomodated to the present state of society, manners, and government, in the United States of America : addressed to the visitors of the Young Ladies' Academy in Philadelphia, 28 July, 1787, at the close of the quarterly examination

Contributor:

Powell, Elizabeth, 1900-1989 (dedicatee); Prichard & Hall (printer)

Name:

Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813; Magaw, Samuel, 1735-1812; Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia

Date:

1787

Language:

English

Provenance:

Pepper, William (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy); Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy); Brown, Andrew (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Publisher:

printed by Prichard & Hall ..

Subject:

Women -- Education -- United States; Women -- Education

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Prayers; books

Physical Description:

32 pages; 21 cm (8vo)

Geographic Subject:

United States

Related Place:

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.; Dedicated to Elizabeth Powel.; Constitution of the Young Ladies' Academy of Philadelphia on p. 31-32.; Online version available via Colenda; Culture Class Collection copy has original (?) blue-gray wrappers preserved; bound in dark green morocco; boards gold-tooled with two sets of single line fillet borders; title, brief title, and date stamped in gilt on spine; gold-tooled cover edges; gold-tooled floral and vine designs on turn-ins; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt.; Culture Class Collection copy has the armorial bookplate of William Pepper on front pastedown; Culture Class Collection copy was the gift of William Pepper III.; Culture Class Collection copy has a partially illegible inscription in brown ink on t.p. that reads "For the hon[ora]ble Mr. B[?]ther from Andrew Brown."

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, AC7 R8953 787t

Collection:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania); American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)