16mo. [5], 8-125pp. Without half title. Original publisher's brown blind-stamped cloth. Rubbing to extremities. Bookseller's ticket of Marvin & Hitchcock to FEP, hinges splitting, foxed throughout, pen-trial to frontispiece with occasional further pen- and pencil-trials to margins.

A selection of letters by Hannah More (1745-1833) providing advice for young women on the subjects of; conversation, envy, true and false meekness, and the importance of religion to the female character. More may be said to have made three reputations in the course of her life; as a bluestocking poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick; as an author of moral and religious works; and as a practical philanthropist. More's writings were heavily influenced by her time teaching at the girl's boarding school founded by her father, where she herself had been educated as a child.