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Hardcover, red cloth lettered in gold, in original non price-clipped dust-jacket. 925pp., plus Index. First edition. 600 years with over 60 women writiers represented. A variety of genres are sampled, as te editiors explore the development of literary styles, themes and innovations from social protest to suspense fiction, morality plays to farce, and confessional writing to travel tales and literary criticism. No previous ownership marks. A very clean, square, fresh copy. unmarked and near as new. A fine copy in a fione dust-jacket.