Green cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Second Edition: a nicely rebound book written by Caroline Barnard has a debatable provenance.

The conjecture by Emily Sunstein (Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality p.415) that this work and Barnard’s Parent’s offering (London, 1813) could have been pseudonymous works by Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein and step- daughter of the publisher, seems unlikely. However, it is nevertheless a great coincidence that Shelley had moved to Buckinghamshire in 1816, and that Claire Claremont – her step-sister – refers to reading a copy of The Parent’s Offering, in her journal, whilst living with the couple in Pisa during the summer of 1820.