The author turned critic; or The reviewer reviewed; : being a reply to a feeble and unfounded attack on Delaplaine's repository, in the Analectic magazine and naval chronicle, for the month of September 1816.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37419.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Delaplaine, Joseph, 1777-1824. Delaplaine's repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished American characters.

Delaplaine, Joseph.

Biography--Publishing.

Biography.

Biography as a literary form.

Portrait painting.

Publishers and publishing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishing.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Prospectuses.

Physical Description:

34 pages, 6 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

To Mr. S. the reviewer.

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1816.]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

"To Mr. S. the reviewer. Sir, ... you are the reviewer, and I the author of the biographical sketches in Delaplaine's repository. You have ... announced to the world what you think of my composition. It is my turn, now, to delare to them as explicitly, what I think of yours."--p. [3]. Attributed to Delaplaine by the Library of Congress in NUC pre-1956.

Signed on p. 34: C. Philadelphia, September 23d. 1816.

Last page blank.

"Delaplaine's repository of the lives and portraits of distinguished Americans, published in quarto."--p. [35-39].

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