A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education, front board
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.
Our copy is bound in an original tree-calf binding from the eighteenth century. This was just one of the decorative techniques applied to leather bindings. See related image just previous.
