ON WOMEN, METHODISTS, AND BASTARDS
CARD, Henry.
Literary Recreations …
London, Printed by W. Wilson … for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme … 1809.
8vo, pp. [4], 299, [1 (blank)], [4 (advertisements)]; some occasional spotting, offset from a spool of thread (no longer present) to pp. 236–7, else a very good copy in early maroon roan, covers tooled in blind and gilt, spine gilt in compartments; ownership inscription to title-page of Robert Courtenay.
First edition of a scarce collection of miscellaneous essays on such topics as ‘the Condition and Character of Women in different Countries and Ages’ (pp. 51–118), the ‘Rapid Growth of Methodism’ (pp. 131–187), and ‘Bastards’ (pp. 199–227).
Card (1779–1844), then resident in Margate, had previously published a History of the Revolutions of Russia and works on the Papacy and education; evidently one to try his hand in all fields, he later wrote a novel, Beauford (1811), and a play, The Brother in Law (1817).
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