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