Original stories from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness. Second Edition. By Mary Wollstonecraft.

ID 6338
Title Original stories from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness. Second Edition. By Mary Wollstonecraft.
Contributors
Signed Author By Mary Wollstonecraft.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination viii, 177
Date of Publication 1791
Edition Statement
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1788
Imprint Printed For J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul's Church-yard
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing London GB
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 17
Width (cm) 10
Price (pound)
Price (shilling) 2
Price (pence) 0.0
Total Price (in pence) 24
Non-UK Price
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Sources
Shelfmarks
  • EM 4968: 6
  • ESTC t043449
  • BL C.70.b.11.
Notes Also Wordsworth Trust, B/44 and B/46; 2 s. 6d. bound, with cuts; [6] leaves of plates :ill. (engravings); also found in Osborne collection u2297515. First edition with Blake's plates. Also found in Devon collection (225).

BL copy has 3 page catalogue, "A catalogue of books composed for children and young persons, and generally used in the principal schools and academies in England."
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Wollstonecraft, Mary. Original stories from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness. Second Edition. By Mary Wollstonecraft.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 6338, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/6338. Accessed 2025-10-29. 

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  author={Wollstonecraft,Mary},
  year={1791},
  title={Original stories from real life; with conversations, calculated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness. Second Edition. By Mary Wollstonecraft.},
  publisher={Joseph Johnson},
  address={London},    }

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