Letters of Jonathan Oldstyle, gent. / By the author of The sketch book ; With a biographical notice.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

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):

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859--Correspondence.

Irving, Washington.

Irving, Washington, 1783-1859.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Penn Provenance:

Ridgely, H. M. (autograph)

Physical Description:

x pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 6-67 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 portrait ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York : Published by William H. Clayton. Clayton & Van Norden, printers, 1824.

Notes:

Originally published in the Morning Chronicle in a series of nine letters, Nov. 1802-Apr. 1803. In this pirated ed. the first letter and the first paragraph of the second letter are omitted. The letters are numbered 1 to 8, which thus should be 2 to 9.--Cf. W.R. Langfeld. Washington Irving.

Brown paper cover with double rule box.

Engraved frontispiece portrait of Irving signed: Engd. by Wm. Keenan; E. Littell, Philadelphia.

Copyright Feb. 19, 1824, by J.L. Buckingham.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: frontispiece wanting.

Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of H.M. Ridgely.

Culture Class Collection copy has [3] slips of paper and a large card containing typewritten and handwritten descriptions of this book laid in.

Cited in:

Shoemaker, 16684

BAL, 10112

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 1429

Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) 3:327

OCLC:

5079265