[FISHER, Ann (c.1719-98)]. The Pleasing Instructor; or, Entertaining Moralist: consisting of Select Essays, Relations, Visions, and Allegories, collected from the most eminent English authors; to which are prefixed New Thoughts on Education. Gainsborough: Printed by and for Henry Mozley, 1813. 8vo. Engraved frontispiece (some spotting and staining, small piece torn from margin of frontispiece without loss, a few leaves laminated towards the end, pieces torn from last 2 leaves of the contents with some loss). Modern half calf gilt. Provenance: "John Woodward's my name and England is my nation and [?]Coxwold is my dwelling place and I hope Heaven will be my habitation. When I am Dead and in my grave and all my bones are rotten" (old inscription on verso of title); F. H. Woodward (modern bookplate on recto of frontispiece). A much-reprinted work throughout the latter part of the 18th and early part of the 19th-centuries. The British Library contains many copies with provincial imprints, including one from Gainsborough printed in 1809, but not this Gainsborough edition from 1813. Some other editions are recorded with plates; ours contains only a frontispiece. With Charles Mackay's Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions (London, 1852, 2nd [extended] edition, 2 vols., original elaborate blindstamped cloth, spine of second vol. a little worn). (3)