Tales, national and revolutionary / By Mrs. C.R. Williams. [Vol. I-]II.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Williams, C. R. (Catherine Read), 1790-1872.

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)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Read, Oliver, -1803.

Read, Oliver.

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

United States.

History.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)

Edwards, William W. (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Edwards, John L. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 16 cm

Other Title:

National tales

Place of Publication:

Providence : H.H. Brown--printer, 1830-1835.

Contents:

[I]. Narrative of Rosanna Eddy ; Life of Captain Oliver Read ; The blind sisters ; The king's ship ; Providential escape ; Loyalty ; Scott's Pond thirty years ago

II. Life of Judge C

-, a tale of the West ; To an infidel [a poem] ; The last of the Dinsmores ; A sketch of the Brown's ; The cholera at Quebec.

Notes:

Vol. 2 printed by Cranston & Hammond.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 imperfect: v. 1 only.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has ms. shelf-mark ("No 26") on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has ms. note discussing the owner's familial connection to the author in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; dated 20th-century ms. provenance note ("A.A.B. Pierre So. Dakota 7/31 '21 - Bought of Noah Morrison - Elizabeth, N.J. Sept 19- 1928 Coles[?].") and ms. genealogical notes in pencil on recto and verso of title leaf and p. [iii].

Schimmel Collection copy 1 has ms. bookplate ("No. 20. William W. Edwards. Georgetown D.C.") on front pastedown; autograph ("John L. Edwards") in pencil on front free endpaper.

Schimmel Collection copy 2 imperfect: v. 1 only.

Schimmel Collection copy 2: boards wanting; spine damaged.

Cited in:

Checklist Amer. imprints, 5478

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 2728

OCLC:

15262006