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The letters of Charlotte, during her connexion with Werter.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PT1975 .A53 1797
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- James, William.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Leiden des jungen Werthers--Parodies, imitations, etc.
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von.
- Genre:
- Parodies (Literature)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes (xii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 14-240 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Printed by William A. Davis, for E. Duyckinck & Co. T. Allen, T. & J. Swords, T. Greenleaf, and J. Tiebout, 1797.
- Notes:
- Written in imitation of Goethe's Sorrows of Werter, and intended to counter the dangerous ideas of that work. Attributed to William James on the basis of a letter, now part of the Speck Collection of Goetheana at Yale University, from James to the London publisher Cadell.
- Frontispiece engraved by John Scoles.
- Three variants with different publishers' names on title pages are known.
- Authorship according to Evans and Bristol.
- Originally published London, 1786.
- Two volumes in one with continuous paging, but separate signatures.
- Signatures: v.1: A-K⁶ (K6 blank) v.2: A-K⁶.
- The third leaf of each gathering is signed as "A2", "B2" etc.; leaf B3 of v.1 signed as "C2."
- Volume 1 includes p. [i]-xii, [13]-120; v.2 includes p. [121]-240.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting.
- Cited in:
- ESTC W20676
- Evans 32313
- Shipton & Mooney 48167 (p. 422)
- English novel, 1770-1829, 1786:26
- OCLC:
- 24050391
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