Memoirs of British ladies : who have been celebrated for their writings or skill in the learned languages, arts and sciences / by George Ballard ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ballard, George, 1706-1755, author.

Contributor:

Evans, Thomas, 1742-1784, bookseller.

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Standardized Title:

Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Great Britain--Biography--Early works to 1800.

Women.

Women--Early works to 1800.

Great Britain.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Elias, Archibald C. (donor) (Kislak Center copy)

Leonard, William Andrew, 1848-1930 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Dacre (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 320, [8] pages ; 22 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

D.NT hene 7.o. *Bth (3) 1775 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for T. Evans, in the Strand, near York-Buildings, MDCCLXXV [1775]

Notes:

Originally published in 1752 with title: Memoirs of several ladies of Great Britain.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-X⁸ Y⁴.

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Teerink copy has 4 pages of ms. notes in front.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy has armorial bookplate ("Dacre") engraved by W. Austin on front pastedown; armorial bookplate of William Andrew Leonard, Bishop of Ohio, on back pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has ms. shelf mark on front free endpaper; ms. bibliographic notes in pencil on front free endpaper; stamp ("32586") at foot of leaf B1r; wormhole near fore-edge margin of front pastedown, front free endpaper and gatherings [A]-X.

Kislak Center copy 2 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Christopher Edwards.

Cited in:

ESTC T94269

OCLC:

4083047