The pioneers, or, The sources of the Susquehanna : a descriptive tale / by the author of Precaution.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.

Contributor:

Robert Dechert Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

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

Standardized Title:

Pioneers

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Dechert, Robert (donor)

Weaver, Mary M. Patterson (bookplate, 1901)

Patterson, Samuel Dewees (inscription)

Penn State Library (inscription)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Sources of the Susquehanna

Place of Publication:

New-York : Published by Charles Wiley, 1823.

Notes:

Vol. 1 subsequently issued with printer's name given as J. Seymour.

Probable first state of v. 2, with folio 329 at left and the note beginning "In consequence of the state of the city during the fever, The pioneers has not received the careful revision that was desirable ..." on p. [332]. Cf. BAL.

For a discussion of the "three 1823 editions" of The pioneers see American bibliographical notes by Lance Schachterlein, Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, v. 84 (April 1974). See also the "Textual commentary," p. [467]-495, in Cooper, J.F. The pioneers (Albany, 1980).

With half-title.

Cited in:

Sabin 16502

Shoemaker 12254

BAL 3829

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 671 (note)

Spiller & Blackburn, 3

OCLC:

1427750