The prairie : a tale / by the author of The spy, The pilot, &c. &c. ; 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:

Cunliffe, F. (label)

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1827.

Notes:

"This edition was set up from the advance sheets of the Paris (Bossange) edition."--BAL. In Cooper's contract with Henry Colburn it was agreed that The prairie would not be published in Paris until the printed sheets from Paris were supplied to Colburn "in sufficient season to enable him to publish in London one day, at least, before the appearance of the work in the said city of Paris."

"Shackell and Bayliss, Johnson's-Court."--Colophons and t.p. verso.

Vol. 1: viii, 339, [1] p.; v. 2: [4], 370 p.; v. 3: [2], 366 p.

Signatures: v. 1, [A]⁴ B-P¹² Q² (Q2 verso blank); v. 2, [A]² B-Q¹² R⁶(-R6); v. 3, [A]¹ B-Q¹² R⁴(-R4).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: half-titles wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has label of F. Cunliffe.

Cited in:

BAL, 3834

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) IV,409

English novel, 1770-1829, 1827:24

OCLC:

1427761