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The young emigrants, or, Pictures of Canada : calculated to amuse and instruct the minds of youth / by the author of "Prejudice reproved", "The tell-tale", etc.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 4844
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traill, Catherine Parr Strickland, 1802-1899.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Ontario--Juvenile fiction.
- Canada--Description and travel--Juvenile fiction.
- Canada.
- Ontario.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- France, Emily Phillis (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- iv, 168 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Other Title:
- Young emigrants
- Pictures of Canada
- Place of Publication:
- London : Harvey and Darton, 1826.
- Notes:
- "Many of the scenes and events contained in them [i.e. these pages], are communicated to the writer by the member of a very amiable family, who emigrated to America in 1821"--Pref.
- Advertisements: [4] p. at end.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century ms. inscription ("Emily Phillis France From her sister Harriett October 9th 1834.") recording the gift of this volume to Emily Phillis France (1822-1903) followed by ms. inscription ("Mat. F 2") in the same hand on front pastedown; dated 19th-century ms. gift inscription ("Emily Phillis France From her sister Harriett. Oct. 9th 1834") on blank leaf preceding half-title leaf.
- OCLC:
- 20614810
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