The history of women, from the earliest antiquity, to the present time
Subtitle: giving a particular account of almost every interesting particular concerning that sex, among all nations, ancient and modern.
By: By William Alexander. ; In two volumes. Volume first[-second]
Contributors: Smither, James, 1741-1797, engraver
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49967
Publisher: Published by J. Turner, and I.H. Dobelbower.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Women -- History
Notes: Issued in ten parts. The wrapper to the first part reads: Just published, price 25 cents, No. I. of The history of women, from the earliest antiquity, to the present time ... Conditions. I. This book will be handsomely printed ..

Wrappers to parts 2-10 not printed

The completed work was published by Dobelbower in 1796 (Evans 29964), gathering A of v. 1 having been reset. Printed by Lang and Ustick

The only known copy of the parts-issue, held by the American Antiquarian Society, is imperfect

Frontispiece to v. 1 engraved by James Smither

Vol. 1: xxv, [2], 28-377, [1], xxx p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: [1], 6-324+ p

With a half-title

Not in Evans or Bristol

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49967)