Mrs. Leicester's School: Or, The History of Several Young Ladies, Related by Themselves.

P.p. viii, 9 to 180, dedication on front past down, 2 leaves with splits, no loss + Copper engraved frontis. Original full calf gilt, lacks part of leather spine, rubbed. Holding., Mary Ann Lamb ( 1764 ? 1847), was an English writer, the sister and collaborator of Charles Lamb. She is best known today for her collaboration with Charles on the collection Tales from Shakespeare. Mary suffered from mental illness, and in 1796 she stabbed her mother to death during a mental breakdown. She was confined to mental facilities off and on for most of her life. She and Charles presided over a literary circle in London that included the poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, among others.