[HOFLAND, Barbara (née Hoole, 1770-1844)] The Son of Genius; A Tale, for the Use of Youth, London, for J. Harris, and B. and R. Crosby, 1812, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, contemporary marbled calf (rebacked with old spine laid down). [cf. Osborne p.262 (later edition]

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[HOFLAND, Barbara (née Hoole, 1770-1844)] The Son of Genius; A Tale, for the Use of Youth, London, for J. Harris, and B. and R. Crosby, 1812, 12°, FIRST EDITION, engraved frontispiece, contemporary marbled calf (rebacked with old spine laid down). [cf. Osborne p.262 (later edition]

The work was written to teach her son that "a great mind can take in petty cares, an aspiring genius stoops to petty detail".