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The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy
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The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy Hardcover - 1968

by Sarah Fielding


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  • Title The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy
  • Author Sarah Fielding
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition Facsimile editio
  • Pages 375
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, London
  • Date 1968
  • ISBN 9780192780065 / 0192780069
  • Ages 09 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 4 - 7
  • Library of Congress subjects Schools - Fiction
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77396017
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Governess or, Little Female Academy

Governess or, Little Female Academy

by Sarah Fielding

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Oxford University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1968. Hard Cover. 0192780069 Facsimile reproduction of the first edition of 1749, with an introduction and bibliography by Jill E Grey. Dust jacket complete except price clipped now in a clear protective cover. Original cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. Previous owners name on ffep. 384 pages clean and tight. This popular classic work by Sarah Fielding is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Sarah Fielding then we highly recommend this publication for your book collection. .
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The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy

The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy

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London, England: Oxford University Press, USA, 1968. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Fine in fine dust jacket. 375 p. New Oxford Library. Audience: Children/juvenile. Hardcover, 1st Oxford press ed. Book is new. No remainder marks. Book was priced for bookstore but never made it to store shelf. Note: Our original store price was penciled inside front cover but has since been erased. NOT pre-owned! Price erasing left lightened spot on colored end page which is why we listed this at a lower grade instead of new. DJ in protective sleeve.
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The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy: A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition of 1749

The Governess: Or, Little Female Academy: A Facsimile Reproduction of the First Edition of 1749

by Sarah Fielding

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London: Oxford University Press, 1968. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good — in Very Good Dust Wrapper. Price clipped. Slight shelf cock. The contents complete, clean and tight.. Hardback in dust wrapper (green boards with gilt titling to the spine) Physically 7½” x 5” (1 kg); (vii) 375pp; Index; Bibliography; In the Juvenile Library series; Preface by Jill E. Grey; ISBN: 0-1927-8006-9 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the bookshop Jack Russells get their supper! My Book #197617|| Condition:
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The Governess, or, Little Female Academy

The Governess, or, Little Female Academy

by Fielding, Sarah. Edited by Jill E. Grey

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London: Oxford University Press. Very Good/Very Good. 1968. Hard Cover. 8vo 0192780069 Price clipped. Green cloth boards with bright gilt titling on spine. vii, 375 pages clean and tight. Sarah Fielding's The Governess well deserves a place in the annals of children's literature. It is the oearliest known full-length novel written for children, and as such, the first moral tale, the first school story, and the first educational novel. First published in 1749 and still to be found in print in 1903, it can also justly claim to be one of the longest-lived stories for children. The facsimile reproduction included in this volume is of the first edition in the possession of Mrs. Jill E. Grey who has written an Introduction and prepared the bibliographical account of The Governess as a children's book. .
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The Governess; or, Little Female Academy

by Fielding, S

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Oxford University Press, London, 1968 facsimile of the 1749 first edition. Cloth, 8vo, 20 cm,. vii, 375 pp. A facsimile reproduction of the first edition of 1749; with an introduction and bibliography by Jill E. Grey. "The Governess" was a popular eighteenth-century tale about the adventures and misadventures of Mrs. Teachum and her nine pupils. "Sarah Fielding's The Governess well deserves a place in the annals of children's literature. It is the earliest known full-length novel written for children, and as such, the first moral tale, the first school story, and the first educational novel. First published in 1749 and still to be found in print in 1903, it can also justly claim to be one of the longest-lived stories for children. The facsimile reproduction included in this volume is of the first edition in the possession of Mrs. Jill B. Grey who has written an Introduction and prepared the bibliographical account of The Governess as a children's book." - from the… Read More
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