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Lucy Sampson, or , The unhappy heiress : a tragedy, in five acts / translated from the German, by a Citizen of Philadelphia.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781.
Contributor:
Rittenhouse, David, 1732-1796, translator.
Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
German
Penn Provenance:
Oliver, William (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
Physical Description:
4 unnumbered pages, 88 pages ; 21 cm (8vo)
Other Title:
Lucy Sampson
Unhappy heiress
Fingerprint:
9.R. t.me e.e- thME (3) 1789 (R)
Place of Publication:
Philadelphia : printed by Charles Cist ..., MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Notes:
Signatures: pi² A-E⁸ F⁴.
Translation by David Rittenhouse of Lessing's play, Miss Sara Sampson.
Local Notes:
Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate of William Oliver on verso of t.p. ("Belonging to the library of Wm. Oliver, (no. 48.)"
Culture Class Collection copy has ms. bibliographic notes in brown ink on recto of back flyleaf.
Culture Class Collection copy has a partially illegible inscription in black ink on t.p., dated "Nov. 1856."
Cited in:
ESTC, W19945
Evans, 21922
Contains:
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. Miss Sara Sampson. English
OCLC:
20660825

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