True stories, from ancient history : chronologically arranged : from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne / by the author of "Always happy," &c.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budden, Maria Elizabeth, 1780?-1832.

Contributor:

Carey, Hewett, autographer.

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

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Juvenile literature.

History, Ancient.

Middle Ages--Juvenile literature.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations ; 15 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by Cox and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Harris and Son, corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1819.

Notes:

Author's name and approximate publication dates from Moon, cited below.

Vol. 1: xii, 187, [5] p., [1] leaf of plates ; v. 2: [iv], 224 p., [1] leaf of plates ; v. 3: [iv], 224 p., [1] leaf of plates.

Dedications, dated from Devonshire, 1819. Vol. 1: "to Richard M.B., my first born child", signed M.E.B. Vol. 2: "to Henry W.B., her second child", signed The author. Vol. 3: "to the endeared and sanctified memory of John Halsey B. ... her third ever dear and lamented child", signed The author.

Includes preface, index and chronological table, and description of the plates.

Engraved frontispieces.

Cf. Gumuchian, 5642.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall D59 .B83 1819 acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund. Autograph of Hewett Carey (possibly Reverend Hewett Carey, 1811-1900) dated 17 October 1819.

Cited in:

Moon, M. Harris (1992), 84(1)

OCLC:

33297500