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The republican court, or, American society in the days of Washington / by Rufus Wilmot Griswold ; with twenty-one portraits of distinguished women, engraved from original pictures by Woolaston, Copley, Gainsborough, Stuart, Trumbull, Pine, Malbone, and other contemporary painters.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Books-in-Parts Collection E163 .G75 1856 pt.1-10
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griswold, Rufus W. (Rufus Wilmot), 1815-1857.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Social life and customs--To 1775.
- United States.
- Manners and customs.
- United States--Biography.
- Women--United States--Biography.
- Women.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Advertisements -- New York (State) -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor)
- E. J. Muygridge (San Francisco) (stamp)
- Physical Description:
- 25 parts (iv pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 490 pages, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- New and revised edition.
- Other Title:
- Republican court
- American society in the days of Washington
- Supplemental chapter on society in Philadelphia while that city was the capital of the Republic
- Place of Publication:
- New York : D. Appleton and Co., 1856.
- Notes:
- T.p. issued in pt. 1.
- Parts issued in illustrated blue paper wrappers printed with publisher's advertisements.
- "To be published in 25 semi-monthly parts, at 50 cents each, or 3 handsomely bound divisions"--Front wrapper.
- "Two editions noted. 1: Text ends on p. 408. Also issued in 21 paper-covered parts. A superficial comparison indicates that this is a reprint of the 'revised' edition of 1855. 2: Text extended by the addition of a 'Supplemental Chapter on Society in Philadelphia ... ,' pp. (409)-490. Possibly issued also in 25(?) paper-covered parts."--BAL.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Presented to the Penn Libraries by Michael Zinman.
- Penn Libraries copy imperfect: RBC has pts. 1-10 only; pt. 10 wanting back wrapper.
- Penn Libraries copy has stamp of distributor ("E.J. Muygridge, San Francisco") on title leaf.
- Cited in:
- BAL 6705
- OCLC:
- 29693421
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