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The history of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. : An Asiatic tale. : The two volumes complete in one. Volume the first[-second]. : [Five lines from La Rochfoucauld].

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784, author.
Contributor:
Dawkins, Henry, -1786?, engraver.
Claypoole, James, Sr., 1720-1796, engraver.
Series:
Early American imprints. First series ; no. 10939.
Standardized Title:
Rasselas
Language:
English
Genre:
Novels.
Fiction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] America: : Printed [by Robert Bell] for every purchaser., MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Attributed to Samuel Johnson in the Dictionary of national biography.
The first American edition. Cf. Rosenbach.
Frontispiece probably the work of Henry Dawkins or James Claypoole. Cf. Hildeburn.
Place of publication and printer's name supplied by Evans.
"The voyage of life. By Samuel Johnson ..."--p. [189]-192.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 10939).
Cited in:
Evans 10939
Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2368
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 60
Contains:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784. Voyage of life.
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