A popular medical text detailing girlhood, maidenhood, wifehood, and motherhood. It blended moral Victorian-era advice with progressive health reforms, including outdoor exercise and education for women. Condition: Fair Binding: Hardcover. 673 pages plus 33 plates. Full black leather blocked in gilt. Edges gilt. Front and rear corner-tips, including spine edges rubbed. Free-end pages have been repaired with bookbinder’s tape. Title page has foxing, with user-wear to edges, and gutter has been repaired. Rear end-pocket is empty. There may be some pages missing.
Publisher: Pacific Press Publishing Company
Date Published: 1891
Publication Place: London
Condition: Fair
Binding: Hardcover
Dimensions: 280 x 200 x 90