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Emma, ou, L'Enfant du malheur / traduit de l'Anglois sur la seconde edition ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3991.A1 .E4514 1788 v.1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Emma, or, The child of sorrow. French.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Epistolary fiction, English--Translations into French--Early works to 1800.
- Epistolary fiction, English.
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- 1788
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 12 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Emma
- Enfant du malheur
- Fingerprint:
- asle ilui lere inco (3) 1788 (A) v.1
- téde e*us e.ma quma (3) 1788 (A) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- A Londres ; Et se trouve à Paris : Chez Buisson, libraire ..., 1788.
- Notes:
- The imprint is false; printed in Paris.--Cf. ESTC, T229577.
- A translation of the anonymous "Emma, or, The child of sorrow" (London, 1776); translated by Mlle. Haudry. Cf. Conlon, P.M. Siècle des lumières, 88:818.
- Translation also published in the same year with title: Histoire de lady Cleveland.
- Errata: vol. 1, p. [304].
- Woodcut headpieces and title page vignettes.
- Published in Paris.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has the bookseller's description laid in.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in contemporary French sheep-backed patterned boards.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has 2 vol. bound together in 1.
- Cited in:
- Conlon, P.M. Siècle des lumières, 88:818
- ESTC T229577
- Martin, A. Bib. du genre romanesque français, 88.9
- Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, t. II, col. 98
- OCLC:
- 156037398
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