An Account of the Lying-in Charity for Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations. Instituted 1757
An Account of the Lying-in Charity for Delivering Poor Married Women at Their Own Habitations. Instituted 1757
No Publisher
1513
[3], 4-62pp. Contemporary full red morocco, raised bands, spine in six panels, green morocco title label to second panel, remaining panels with triple fillet frame enclosing a small flower, covers with a dog tooth roll border, enclosing a cottage roof style design, with roundels, stars, small birds, volutes and vases with leafy stems and small flower head tools, gilt roll to edges and inner edges, a.e.g., with combed marbled endpapers. Very minor wear to extremities, generally quite bright and clean. Presumably bound for presentation to a donor. The charity was for the pregnant poor, though it points out that is aimed at the "sober and industrious poor" (page 5), and, of course, they would also have to have been married (page 6). The work seems to have been issued several times (presumably with updated lists of donors), but the current unavailability of the ESTC makes this difficult to ascertain for sure
1773
Very Good
First Edition
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