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Mason Locke Weems, his works and ways / edited by Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Reference Collection PS3157.W83 Z83 v.1-3 v.1 v.2 v.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825--Bibliography.
- Weems, M. L.
- Weems, M. L. (Mason Locke), 1759-1825.
- American literature--1783-1850--Bibliography.
- American literature.
- Booksellers and bookselling--United States.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- United States.
- Booksellers and bookselling--Colportage, subscription trade, etc.
- Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839.
- Carey, Mathew.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : frontispieces (2 color; v.1: portrait) illustrations, plates, facsimiles (part double) ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, [publisher not identified], 1929.
- Contents:
- Vol. 1. A Bibliography left unfinished by Paul Leicester Ford.
- Vol. 2. Letters 1784-1809.
- Vol. 3. Letters 1810-1825.
- Notes:
- Colophon of vol. III: This work originated with Paul Leicester Ford, was edited by Mrs. Roswell Skeel junior, and printed by Richmond Mayo-Smith, all of one family.
- Two hundred copies of vol. I and three hundred copies of vols. II-III have been printed by the Plimpton press of Norwood, Mass.
- Most of the letters are addressed to Mathew Carey.
- "Books ... periodicals ... newspapers consulted": volume I, pages 345-385.
- T.p. of vols. 2 and 3 has: Letters 1784-1825.
- Local Notes:
- "Three Hundred Copies have been printed. This is number 37."
- OCLC:
- 1995644
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