ORNAMENTS FOR THE DAUGHTERS OF ZION, OR THE CHARACTER AND HAPPINESS OF A VIRTUOUS WOMAN: IN A DISCOURSE WHICH DIRECTS THE FEMALE SEX HOW TO EXPRESS THE FEAR OF GOD IN EVERY AGE AND STATE OF THEIR LIFE; AND OBTAIN BOTH TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL BLESSEDNESS
Book Details + Condition: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints (Delmar, NY). First Edition thus, 1978 (originally published in 1692). Very scarce: there are no copies available for sale, as they are retained at universities. Hardcover. 116 pages with a 20-page Introduction. Cotton Mather's influential treatise prescribing modes of dress, makeup, attitudes, and social behavior for women. It was a major document for assessing the role of women in colonial America.
From the massive occult collection of King Lawrence Parker - academic, dissertation author, and book collector extraordinaire. A firm and clean copy of a very scarce edition, with rubbed corners and edges; light wear to boards, with a bit of scraping towards top edges; Parker's bookplate to inside front board; interior is clean and free of markings.
