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A collection of entertaining histories and novels : designed to promote the cause of virtue and honour, principally founded on facts and interspersed with a variety of beautiful and instructive incidents / by Mrs. Penelope Aubin ; and now first collected in three volumes.
LIBRA - Special PR3316 .A68 1739 v.2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aubin, Penelope, approximately 1679-approximately 1738.
- Standardized Title:
- Works. 1739
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for D. Midwinter, A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. and J. Pemberton, R. Ware, C. Rivington, A. Ward, J. and P. Knapton, T. Longman, R. Hett, S. Austen and J. Wood, 1739.
- Contents:
- v. 1. The noble slaves. The life and amorous adventures of Lucinda
- v. 2. The strange adventures of Count de Vinevil and his family. The life and adventures of Lady Lucy. The life and adventures of the young Count Albertus
- v. 3. The life of Charlotta Du Pont. The life of Madm. de Beaumont.
- Notes:
- Vols. 2-3 each has an advertisement facing the title page.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection imperfect: v.2 only.
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy v.2 front flyleaf detached and has faded/illegible ms. note.
- Cited in:
- ESTC (RLIN) T119464
- McBurney, W.H. Engl. prose fiction, 334
- OCLC:
- 13275630
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