Letters on different subjects : in four volumes : amongst which are interspers'd the adventures of Alphonso after the destruction of Lisbon / by the author of The unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters. Vol. I[-IV].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pennington, Sarah, Lady, -1783.

Contributor:

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

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English letters--Early works to 1800.

English letters.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (autograph, April 1927) (donor) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Leycester, Charlotte (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

4 volumes ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Adventures of Alphonso

Fingerprint:

anto P.P. her, fith (3) 1766 (R) v.1

i-ve nyar nger here (3) 1766 (R) v.2

Noct t.ho heo- beth (3) 1767 (R) v.3

l-e- edf- heed renu (3) 1767 (R) v.4

Place of Publication:

London : To be had by the subscribers at those booksellers where they have subscribed, and at W. Bristow's ... in Rolls Buildings, Fetter-Lane, MDCCLXVI-MDCCLXVII [1766-1767].

Notes:

The Author of The unfortunate mother's advice to her absent daughters is Sarah Pennington. Preface signed: S.P.--Cf. Halket & Laing.

With lists of subscribers names.

Vols. 1-2 dated 1766 and vols. 3-4 1767.

Errata: v. 4, p. [238].

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy has vols. 2-4 only. Previously bound with the third ed. of vol. 1. (Singer-Mendenhall PR/3617/P79/L4/1767)

Culture Class Collection copies have autograph of Charlotte Leycester.

Cited in:

ESTC, T93499

Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), 182

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III, 334

Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1045

OCLC:

228751321