ILLUSTRATIONS OF LYING IN ALL IN BRANCHES.; in two volumes
London: Longman, Hurst, Heeb, Orme, Brown and Green, 1825. First Edition. 8vo, p. 296, 288. Bound with the half titles, early bookplate, in contemporary calf (rubbed along hinges), calf labels. A VG tight copy. Item #58638
Amelia (Alderson) Opie (1769-13) was known as a poet and novelist. She was close to William Godwin, but after learning of his liaison and subsequent marriage to Mary Wollstonecraft, distanced herself from the radicals. In her later years, she became a Quaker and attended the 1840 Anti-Slavery conference in London, witnessing the important debate about the seating of woman delegates Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This was much reprinted both in the US and UK.
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