[Printed pamphlet.] [drophead title] Address of the Ladies Committee for Promoting the Education and Employment of the Female Poor.

16mo, 15 pp. Fair, on lightly aged paper. Signature mark 'B' at foot of first page. Paginated [1]-15. Red label of the Board of Education Reference Library on the blank reverse of the last leaf, and shelf-mark at foot of first page. Stitched into modern brown wraps with typed label. Includes the 'Regulations of the Ladies Committee', pp 9-13, and a list of officers and members, pp 14-15, under 'Patroness, Her Majesty. | Vice-Patronesses, Their Royal Highnesses the Princesses. | President. The Right Hon. Lady Teignmouth.' The twenty-seven members, mostly noble, include 'Mrs. Wilberforce'. Excessively scarce: no copy on COPAC or WorldCat, both of which do however list a twelve-page item with the same title, printed in 1805 in Dublin for William Watson. The formation of the Committee was proposed in March 1804, at a meeting of the Society for Bettering the Condition of the Poor.