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The foresters : a poem, descriptive of a pedestrian journey to the falls of Niagara, in the autumn of 1804 / by the author of American ornithology.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC7 W6912 805f 1818 copy 2
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC7 W6912 805f 1818
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)--Poetry.
- Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.).
- Pennsylvania--Poetry.
- Pennsylvania.
- New York (State)--Poetry.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Poems -- 1818.
- Penn Provenance:
- Evans, Cornealia (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Weir, Mitchell (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Bringhurst, Deborah, 1773-1844 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 106 pages ; 18 cm
- Fingerprint:
- x.e. 8)d, e,re ThCr (7) 1818 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- Newtown [Penn.] : published by S. Siegfried & J. Wilson, June--1818.
- Notes:
- Half-title on first leaf.
- Signatures: [A]⁶ B-I⁶ (I6 blank)
- "Miner's Press--Newtown, Penn. Simeon Siegfried, printer."--verso of title page.
- First published in The Portfolio, Philadelphia, ser. 3, vols. 1-3, June 1809-March 1810.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy quarter bound in black morocco over marbled boards; author and brief title stamped in gilt on spine; all edges speckled grey.
- Culture Class Collection copy has the armorial bookplate of Weir Mitchell on front pastedown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has an inscription in brown ink on front flyleaf that reads "Cornealia Evans".
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has left board detached.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 has ms. inscription on front free flyleaf which reads, "Deborah Bringhurst's 4th Mo: 8th 1824. Bot the day R & H. Hurnard, with their family embarked for England."
- Cited in:
- Sabin 104599
- Shaw & Shoemaker, 46824
- Wegelin, 1st ed., v. 2, p. 49
- OCLC:
- 6594242
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