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The black castle; or The spectre of the forest. : To which is added, The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Barrett, C. F.
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 24754.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Gwinett, Ambrose.
Murder--England--Deal.
Murder.
Executions and executioners--England--Deal.
Executions and executioners.
Evidence, Circumstantial.
England--Deal.
Genre:
Novellas.
Short stories.
Fiction.
Physical Description:
119 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 13 cm
Place of Publication:
Otsego [N.Y.]: : Printed by H. & E. Finney, Jun. and sold by them wholesale and retail., 1812.
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
The black castle is by C.F. Barrett.
Last page blank.
"The life and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett, apprentice to an attorney at law. Who, for a murder he never committed, was tried, condemned, executed, and hung in chains, in Old England, yet lived many years afterward ...--p. [53]-93, with separate title page. Attributed to Isaac Bickerstaff in the Dictionary of national biography.
"The absent man. A true and comic character."--p. [94]-99.
"The maid of the village."--p. [100]-119.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 24754).
Contains:
Bickerstaff, Isaac, 1735-1812. Life and strange unparallel'd and unheard-of voyages and adventures of Ambrose Gwinett.
Absent man.
Maid of the village.
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