Clelia, an excellent new romance: the whole work in five parts, dedicated to Mademoiselle de Longueville ... / Written in French by the exquisite pen of Monsieur de Scudery, governour of Nostredame de la Garde [pseudonym]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.

Contributor:

Davies, John, 1625-1693, translator.

Havers, G. (George), translator.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (donor) (copy 1)

Sassoon, Joseph S. (autograph, Nov. 1877) (cop.2)

Lambton, Ann (autograph) (cop. 2)

Wilson, Mary (autograph) (cop. 2)

Physical Description:

4 preliminary leaves, 327 ( that is 331) pages 2 leaves, 217-544, that is, 548, 553-736 pages : frontispiece (portrait) ; 34 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and are to be sold by H. Herringman, D. Newman, T. Cockerel. S. Heyrick, W. Cadman, S. Loundes, G. Marriot, W. Crook, and C. Smith, 1678.

Notes:

Paging irregular: pt. 2: unpaged leaf inserted before p. 223 and p. 329 numbered 327: pt. 3: nos. 281-284 repeated.

Parts 1-3 translated by John Davies and 4-5 by G. H. [i. e. George Havers]

Each part has also special t.-p., that of pt. 4-5 dated 1677. Imprint varies: pt. 2-4, Printed for Dorman Newman and Thomas Cockerel.--pt. 5. Printed for Henry Herringman ...

Dedication of pt. 2-3 signed: J. Davies: that of pt. 4. signed: G. H.; of pt. 5: G. Havers.

Local Notes:

Cop. 2 imperfect: several preliminary leaves wanting; p.223-327 (i.e.331), 1st sequence (Part II, Bks. 2-3) wanting; p.735-736 slightly damaged, some text missing.

Cited in:

ESTC R19972

Mish, C.C. Engl. prose fiction, 26 (vol. 1-3), 24 (vol. 4-5)

OCLC:

6795246