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[email protected] WEBSITE: www.pickering-chatto.com 111 [Victoria & Albert] Back cover image is taken from item 32 Gartside FOR ANY ENQUIRIES PLEASE CONTACT ED SMITH OR EDMUND BRUMFITT PRICES ARE IN POUNDS STERLING. VISA, MASTERCARD & AMERICAN EXPRESS ACCEPTED. Bankers: METRO Bank, 227-228 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7QF Account Name: Marlborough & Pickering Ltd Account No: 11944094 Sort Code: 23-05-80 Terms: 30 Days IBAN: GB18MYMB23058011944094 SWIFT: MYMBGB2L Correspondence (Barclays) BIC CODE: BARCGB22 WILLIAM PICKERING LTD. VAT NO. GB 896 1174 90 P ICKERING & CHATTO 1 [ANON]. ANEWBOOK, CONTAINING ANIMADVERSIONS ON A PAMPHLET RECENTLY PUBLISHED BY A FEMALE ON DRESS; in a letter to its Author. By an Old Youth. Whitby, ClarK and Medd, 1816. £ 225 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, pp. 16; a few brown spots; mid-20th-century plain wrappers, with shelfmark in blue crayon and manuscript shelfmark label inside front wrapper. First edition of this acerbic Page-by-Page refutation of a PamPhlet criticising indecent clothing for females from a Calvinist point of view, one Miss Dean’s An Appeal to the Consciences of Christians,whichhad been published in not too far away Darlington. The anonymous author, who variously calls herself an Old Youth, Honestas, and An Arminian, delightfully dismantles the original text, which had been Printed three times in 1816. She addresses the author by accusing her ‘of the nothingness of that which you are puffed up’ and ‘your flagrant blunders and numerous mistakes’ (P.