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Lectures on English literature.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reed, Henry, 1808-1854.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Genre:
- Broadsides -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Reed, Henry, 1808-1854 (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) ; 26 x 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Philadelphia] : [publisher not identified], [1840]
- Notes:
- Notice for lectures at the University of Pennsylvania in December, 1840.
- At head of title: University of Pennsylvania.
- Broadside.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has author's inscription to Nicholas Biddle.
- Culture Class Collection copy has, included with broadside, a letter from American Library Service, dated April 30, 1965 and addressed to Librarian University of Pennsylvania Library, describing the contents of the broadside. Also included is a note in pencil, circa 1965, which reads in part "The first attempt to promote Eng. Lit. in a public course ... was the first Amer. exponent of Wm. Wordsworth ..."
- OCLC:
- 858038820
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