The spy : A tale of the neutral ground / By the author of "Precaution" ; In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.

Contributor:

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

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Fiction.

New York (State).

History.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Fiction.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Clanton, George (inscription)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York : Wiley & Halsted, 1821.

Notes:

Copyright Sept. 7, 1821 by Wiley & Halsted.

Vol. 1: xii, 251, [1] p.; v. 2: 286 p.

Signatures: v. 1, pi⁶ 1-21⁶ (last page blank); v. 2, 1-23⁶ 24⁶(-24₆).

"Vol. 2 has been noted in two states. The following order is probable: A: Folio 285 at inner left margin; folio 286 at inner right margin. B: Folios 285 and 286 in proper position."--BAL.

Local Notes:

Vol. 2 in state B.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to George Clanton from his grandfather, 1856.

Culture Class Collection copy v. 1 has individual leaves from the second edition which were tipped into signatures in the first volume of the first edition. The tiped-in leaves are as follows (all in volume 1): p. 3-4 glued to p. 2 (sig. 1); p. 35-36 glued to p. 34 (sig. 3); p. 55-56 glued to p. 57 (sig. 5); p. 83-84 glued to p. 82 (sig. 7); p. 91-92 glued between p. 90 and 93 (sign. 8) and p. 143-144 glued to p. 142 (sig. 12). The letter listing these anomalies addressed to Mr. Lyman Riley from Lance Schachterle is laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy v. 1 has p. 147 misnumbered 47.

Cited in:

BAL 3826

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 717

Shoemaker, 5075

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) V,353

OCLC:

10217853