The pioneers, or The sources of the Susquehanna : a descriptive tale / By the author of "The spy" ; In three 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

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Ashe, R. (autograph)

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 19 cm

Other Title:

Sources of the Susquehanna

Pioneers : a descriptive tale

Place of Publication:

London : John Murray, 1823.

Notes:

Half-title: The pioneers: a descriptive tale.

The first English edition. For a discussion of the "three 1823 editions" of The pioneers see American bibliographical notes by Lance Schachterle in the 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.

"Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons, near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, London."--versos of half-titles.

Vol. 1: viii, 268 p.; v. 2: [4], 274 p.; v. 3: [4], 364 p.

Signatures: v. 1, A⁴ B-M¹² N²; v. 2, [A]² B-M¹² N⁶(-N6); v. 3, [A]² B-Q¹² R².

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy v. 1 has list of borrowers and due dates written in ms. on the front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of R. Ashe.

Cited in:

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) IV,348

English novel, 1770-1829, 1823:28

OCLC:

187642199