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The London Mathews; containing an account of this celebrated comedian's trip to America, being an annual lecture on peculiarities, characters, and manners, founded on his own observations and adventures, to which are prefixed, several original comic songs, viz. Travellers all, Mrs. Bradish's Boarding-House, Opossum up a Gum-Tree, Militia Muster Folk, Boston Post-Office, Ode to General Jackson, Illinois Inventory, the American Jester's Song, and the Farewell Finale : embellished with six copper-plate engravings.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection EC8 M4223 823l 1824 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathews, Charles, 1776-1835.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ballads, English.
- United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Description and travel.
- United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Steenan, Ellie (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 36 pages, 1 unnumbered folded plate ; 17 cm
- Other Title:
- London Mathews
- Trip to America
- Mr Mathews's trip to America
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Morgan & Yeager, Chesnut Street. Simon Probasco, printer., 1824.
- Notes:
- Written for Charles Mathews by James Smith; cf. the Dictionary of national biography and Allibone. Occasionally attributed to Mrs.Mathews; cf. Sabin.
- Signatures: 1-36.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has colored plate.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Ellie Steenan.
- Culture Class Collection copy has some unopened leaves.
- Cited in:
- Sabin 46825
- OCLC:
- 1019662691
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