A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, frontispiece and title page
Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802. A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education: in Boarding Schools, Private Families, and Public Seminaries; to Which are Added, Rudiments of Taste, in a Series of Letters from a Mother to her Daughters ; Embellished with an Elegant Frontispiece. Philadelphia: Printed by John Ormrod, 1798.
In this work, together with grammar, arithmetic, and etiquette, Erasmus Darwin presents natural history as a proper subject for study by a young woman of taste. He also included a number of natural history and botanical publications on a list of recommended reading.
