Author(s): Mrs. Mary Wood-Allen, M.D.

Rare, Collectable, Folios

Purity and Truth - Self and Sex Series.
New revised edition.
A Victorian Lesson book for girls seeking virtuous advise. Dedicated to:"The thousands of girls whose honest inquiries concerning the origin of life and being deserve such a truthful, intelligent, and satisfactory answer as will save them from ignorance, enable them to avoid vice, and deliver them from the solitary and social sins".
Text preceded by commendations (with black and white portrait of each person). Small octavo.

Good condition overall. Light tanning on front and back pages. Binding on inside spine is partly loose on one side. Cover - maroon cloth boards, with gilt lettering on spine and title imprint on front cover.
Published in 1905.