Haslewood Books - The Letters of Eliza Pierce 1751-1775.

The letters of Eliza Pierce, 1751-1775: with letters from her son Pierce Joseph Taylor, a schoolboy at Eton. [Edited by Violet M. Macdonald.] 8vo, 124 pages, [1] leaf of plates, collotype portrait after Downman, 24cm, London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh Macdonald, 1927.

Set in Baskerville and printed by Richard Clay & Sons. Number 36 of 75 (670) copies printed on Millbourn handmade paper. Specially bound in plum-coloured watered silk, spine titled in gilt, upper board blocked in gilt. A very good to fine copy. (Tucker 15)

A collection of hitherto unpublished eighteenth century letters of a young Devonshire heiress to a gentlemen of the neighbourhood to whom she was engaged. The collection includes later letters to her husband and several amusing letters from herson, a boy at Eton College,