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Dawn island : a tale / by Harriet Martineau.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 6173
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martineau, Harriet, 1802-1876, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Economic anthropology--Fiction.
- Economic anthropology.
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Smith, Susannah (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Hunt, A. George (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 94 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : J. Gadsby, Newall's Buildings, 1845.
- Contents:
- Nature and man at war
- Puerile man and his gods
- The priest and the oracle
- More human sacrifice
- Vital tribute
- The priest and the advent
- A higher disclosure
- Spiritual tribute
- Nature and man at peace.
- Notes:
- "This tale, written for the purpose, is my offering to the Bazaar of the National Anti-Corn-Law League."--Preface.
- Added engraved title page.
- Added engraved title page and frontispiece are conjugate.
- "Manchester: Printed by J. Gadsby, Newall's-Buildings."--Colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to Susannah Smith from A. Geo. Hunt.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible dated 20th-century manuscript gift inscription ("Best love from [...] Xmas 1943") on front pastedown.
- OCLC:
- 4555387
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