Pathetic, sentimental, and moral narratives : selected from the best authors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

B. Crosby and Co., publisher.

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

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, English.

Conduct of life--Fiction.

Conduct of life.

Genre:

Short stories, English.

Fiction.

Publishers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

2 volumes in 12 parts : illustrations ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for B. Crosby & Co. ... and may be had of every bookseller, newsman, and stationer, in the United Kingdom, 1806-1807.

Notes:

Cataloged from incomplete copy: Penn Libraries has no. 1-2 only.

"To be completed in twelve monthly numbers, each embellished with a highly-finished engraving ... To be printed in the neatest manner, on fine wove paper. The fine edition will be on large paper and hot-pressed; making two handsome vols. demy and royal 12mo. Each number to contain several complete stories, on seventy-two pages of close printed letter-press, so that it will be at the option of the purchaser to buy the whole or any part."--No. 1, front wrapper.

Parts issued in printed paper wrappers; publisher's advertisement on back wrapper. Imprint date on title leaf: 1806. The work was completed in 2 volumes in 1807; cf. E.W.R. Pitcher, Discoveries in periodicals, 1720-1820 (Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 2000), p. 18.

Engraved plates.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2017 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: no. 1: wrapper spine largely wanting; back wrapper damaged with minor loss of text.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: no. 2: wrapper spine wanting; lower portion of front wrapper torn off and wanting with substantial loss of text; back wrapper detached and damaged with minor loss of text.

OCLC:

982016266