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Sketches of Young People; or, A Visit to Brighton. By the Author of The Grandfather, Friendship, The Schoolfellows, &c. &c.

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Attractive engraved frontispiece with seascape. 12mo., the final two advertisement leaves transposed, a really attractive copy in the original quarter red roan over marbled boards, the spine lettered and banded in gilt and priced in gilt at two shillings, blue flecked edges. London, Printed for Harvey and Darton. 1822

Unattributed in the British Library catalogue and other research has failed to identify the author. In the preface the assuredly female author writes: "The following sketches are intended to convince my readers of the advantages of a good education. In Miss Penton they may see the evils attendant on an uncultivated and covetous mind. They who possess such a disposition, know neither the satisfaction in obtaining knowledge, nor the happiness of sharing their pleasures with others. Mean and selfish, their ideas extend not beyond themselves; and their gratifications are of the lowest kind, that of surpassing their companions in outward appearance, and the glittering show which riches may purchase".