Notions of the Americans : picked up by a travelling bachelor : In two volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851.

Contributor:

Henry Colburn (Firm), publisher.

Shackell and Baylis, printer.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Description and travel.

United States.

United States--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

United States--Social life and customs--1783-1865.

Manners and customs.

Penn Provenance:

Harlow, Alvin F, (Alvin Fay), 1875-1963 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

2 volumes ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Letters &c. &c.

Place of Publication:

London : Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828.

Notes:

With a half-title.

"London: Shackell and Baylis, Johnson's-Court, Fleet-Street."--Versos of half-titles.

Vol. 1: xxiv, 459, [1] p.; v. 2: xi, [1], 477, [3] p.

Signatures: v. 1, [a]⁸ b⁴ B-2F⁸ 2G⁴ 2H² (2H2 verso blank); v. 2, [a]² b⁴ B-2G⁸ 2H⁸.

Error in pagination: v. 1, p. 131 misnumbered 311.

Publisher's advertisements: v. 1, "University of London, the following works of the professors are destined for the use of students in, or preparing for the University of London, printed by John Taylor, dated Oct 1, 1828 (4 p.); vol. 2, "Works just published by Henry Colburn," p. [479-480].

First edition.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Alvin Fay Harlow.

Cited in:

BAL, 3841

OCLC:

51421970