The foresters, : an American tale: : being a sequel to the History of John Bull the clothier. : In a series of letters to a friend.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belknap, Jeremy, 1744-1798.

Contributor:

Seymour, Joseph H.

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Fiction.

United States.

History.

United States--Foreign relations--1775-1783--Fiction.

International relations.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

216 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Printed at Boston, : by I. Thomas and E. T. Andrews, proprietors of the work, Faust's Statue, no. 45, Newbury Street., 1792.

Notes:

Historical allegory dealing with the American Revolution and contemporary relations with England and France. Attributed to Belknap in the Dictionary of American biography.

Two states of the frontispiece noted in BAL. In the first (BAL 1), which is unsigned, the block in the lower left corner reads ''L 150,000000.'' In the second (BAL 2), signed ''Seymour de. sc.'', the block in the lower corner reads''L 200 millions.''

Two states of p. 77 noted in BAL. In one, the footnote (''Pennsylvania'') appears without an asterisk and has a space between the third and fourth letters. In the other, the space is closed and an asterisk precedes the footnote.

Signatures: A-S6.

Printers' monogram device on title page.

Local Notes:

Frontispiece mutilated, preventing identification of state; p. 77 2nd state.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) W5413

Evans 24086

BAL 929

Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 289

Related Work:

Arbuthnot, John, 1667-1735. History of John Bull.

OCLC:

1621736