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The gift : a Christmas and New Year's present for 1842.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Sp-F 126
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gift books.
- American literature--19th century.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Gift books -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (Gift Book Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii pages, 17 unnumbered pages-322 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Manufacture:
- [Philadelphia] : C. Sherman & Co. printers.
- Other Title:
- Gift, 1842
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, [1841]
- Notes:
- Added title page, engraved, with vignette.
- Includes the first printing of Poe's Eleonora.--Cf. Heartman & Canny.
- Publisher's advertisements on p. [323]-[328].
- Local Notes:
- Gift Book Collection copy 2 imperfect: frontispiece leaf of plates wanting.
- Cited in:
- Faxon, F. W. Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 306
- Heartman, C.F., & Canny, J.R. Bibliography of first printings of the writings of Edgar Allan Poe, p. 88-89
- Thompson, R. Annuals, p. 126
- Contains:
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849. Eleonora.
- OCLC:
- 919605
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