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Village sketches, or Tales of Somerville.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 C3658 825v
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chapin, William, 1802-1888.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Books, Marvin Moran (autograph)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, iv pages, 1 unnumbered page, 10-154 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- Tales of Somerville
- Place of Publication:
- Norristown, Pa. : Printed by David Sower, Jr., 1825.
- Contents:
- Somerville
- The marriage
- Childhood
- The mother
- Friends meeting
- The village grave-yard
- The love adventures of Tom Lumpkin
- The storm
- Letter writing
- Mary Irvine
- The prisoner
- The poor debtor
- The evening visit.
- Notes:
- Attributed to William Chapin by Wright.
- Copyright Feb. 15, 1825 by David Sower, Jr.
- With an added engraved title page.
- With an errata slip tipped at end.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Marvin Moran Books (?), Nov. 14, 1838.
- Culture Class Collection copy has written annotations.
- Cited in:
- Shoemaker, 20024
- Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 503
- OCLC:
- 6690229
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