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The Gift : a Christmas and New Year's present for 1836 / edited by Miss Leslie.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leslie, Eliza, 1787-1858.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gift books.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Gift books -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Boker, Amanda M. (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Boker, William G. (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copy) (RBC copy)
- Earl, Maria (inscription) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- J. B. L. (inscription) (Gift Book Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 17 unnumbered pages-292 pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 16 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Philadelphia] : C. Sherman & Co. printers.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : E. L. Carey & A. Hart, [1835]
- Notes:
- Publication date suggested by the Preface (p. [v]-vii), signed "Philadelphia, October, 1835".
- The Gift was published annually in eight issues dated 1836 to 1845, with none for 1838 and 1841; this is the first issue.
- Contains "An unwritten drama of Lord Byron" by Washington Irving.
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection copy has has two inscriptions, in different hands, to Anna Meyer: the first, in ink reads: "presented to Maria Earl by her friend J.B.L.; "the second, in pencil, reads: "Maria Earl, memento of friendship, from J.B.L., January 1st 1836."
- RBC copy has 1 leaf of ms. letter addressed to "Mr. Clapp", inserted following p. vi, erroneously identifying this work as including the 1st printing of Poe's Manuscript in a bottle.
- RBC copy has the autographs, in pencil, of Amanda M. Boker and William G. Boker.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed of Mlle. Sophie.
- Cited in:
- Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 301
- Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 126
- Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, p. 36-37
- Contains:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Manuscript found in a bottle.
- OCLC:
- 1577482
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