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Jon Duan : a twofold journey with manifold purposes / by the authors of "The Coming k---" and "The Siliad."
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4099.B135 J6 1874
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beeton, Samuel Orchart, 1831-1877.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron, 1788-1824. Don Juan.
- Byron, George Gordon Byron.
- Great Britain--Politics and government--1837-1901--Humor.
- Great Britain.
- Politics and government.
- Political satire, English.
- Disraeli, Benjamin, 1804-1881.
- Disraeli, Benjamin.
- Genre:
- Humor.
- Advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mercantile Library of Philadelphia (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, vi, 94, ix-xxxii pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Weldon & Co., 1874.
- Notes:
- A political satire modelled on Byron's Don Juan.
- By Samuel O. Beeton, A.A. Dowty, and Evelyn D. Jerrold. Cf. BLC; H. Montgomery Hyde, Mr. and Mrs. Beeton, p. 140-141. Formerly attributed to Eustace C. Grenville Murray, or to Beeton, "Doughty", and S.R. (or George R.) Emerson.
- O.P.Q. Philander Smiff is the pseudonym of A. A. Dowty.
- "Spinnings in town": p. 88-94, signed: The Silkworm; author identified as A.A. Dowty in BLC, but perhaps Matilda ("Myra") Browne, editor of Beeton's The Englishwoman's domestic magazine, for which she wrote a regular column called Spinnings in town, and signed The Silkworm. Cf. S. Freeman, Isabella and Sam, p. 257, 287.
- Advertisements: p. [1-8] at front, p. ix-xxxii at end of text. Those at the end contain several full-page illustrations demonstrating the Gillotype process.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Penn Libraries copy has three of the preliminary leaves of advertisements bound elsewhere in the text; p. xxxi-xxxii at end (advertisements) wanting.
- Cited in:
- Sadleir, M. 19th cent. fiction, 3480
- CBEL (1999), IV, 2213
- OCLC:
- 6985933
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