A Family Tour Through The British Empire;

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G, 1st US edition. In contemporary full marked calf, corners bumped, edges worn. Spine, gilt tooling, gilt titles to dark green calf label, worn along joints & edges. Internally, creased large map frontis, [3], (iv) only, [1], 2-354 pp, [6] notes, [8] Itinerary, lacks paste downs & end pages, bookplate to verso of map (Willard W Wixson), some spotting & browning throughout, pagination error at P3, tear at Aa2 with loss of 2 words, page tip loss at E1, evidence of bookplate removal to fpd. (18 mo, 97*163mm). (Alibone 2536). Published in the same years as the 1st English edition. Wakefield [née Bell], author and philanthropist wrote seventeen books, principally moral tales, introductory works of natural history, and travelogues. She was well known as an author for the rising generation at a time when the developing field of children's literature offered welcome opportunities to women. See ODNB.