Ibrahim, or , The illustrious bassa : an excellent new romance : the whole work, in foure parts / written in French by Monsieur de Scudery, and now Englished by Henry Cogan, gent.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.

Contributor:

Cogan, Henry, translator.

Scudéry, M. de (Georges), 1601-1667, attributed name.

Webster, D., bookseller.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

French Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Ibrahim. English

Language:

English

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Dobson, Mary (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Haviland, T.P., Mrs. (bookplate) (donor) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Webster, D. (label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered pages, 116, 116, 233 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 26 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Ibrahim

Illustrious bassa

Fingerprint:

itn- ++++ h.nd nehi (3) 1652 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Humphrey Moseley ..., William Bentley, and Thomas Heath ..., MDCLII [1652]

Notes:

Signatures: A⁶ B-P⁴ Q² 2A-2O⁴ 2P² 3A-4E⁴ 4F⁶ (last leaf blank).

In fact by Madeleine de Scudéry.

"Ibrahim: or The illustrious bassa. The second part. The first book.", "Ibrahim: or, The illustrious bassa· The third part. The first book." (caption titles) each begin new pagination with quires 2A and 3A, respectively.

Head- and tail-pieces; initials.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has the armorial bookplate of Haviland on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has the autograph of Mary Dobson twice on t.p. in brown ink.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. writing and penn trials in brown ink on verso of leaf 4F5, that includes the autograph of Mary Dobson and the inscription "Sister Mary".

Culture Class Collection copy has a bookseller's label on front pastedown that reads of "D. Webster Bookseller Turnbridge Wells Books Bought".

Culture Class Collection copy has an illegible inscription on recto of front flyleaf.

Culture Class Collection copy leaf 4F5 is ripped, with lower portion of leaf missing, resulting in minor loss of text.

Culture Class Collection copy bound in full brown mottled calf; six raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; five spine panels gold-tooled with curls and sun tools; brief title stamped in gilt on a red morocco label in second spine panel; the monogram initials S. X. or X. S. surmounted by crown stamped in gilt on a small red morocco label in the third panel; blind-tooled cover edges; marbled endpapers; all edges speckled red.

Cited in:

ESTC, R20682

Mish, C.C. Engl. prose fiction, 1652, p. 7

Wing (CD-Rom, 1996) , S2160

OCLC:

63667835