The fortunate foundlings : being the genuine history of Colonel M----rs, and his sister, Madam du P----y, the issue of the Hon. Ch---es M-----rs, son of the late Duke of R--l--d : containing many wonderful accidents that befel [sic] them in their travels, and interspersed with the characters and adventures of several persons of condition, in the most polite courts of Europe : the whole calculated for the entertainment and improvement of the youth of both sexes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haywood, Eliza Fowler, 1693?-1756, author.

Contributor:

Gardner, Thomas, active 1735-1756, publisher.

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

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Printers' advertisements -- England -- London -- 18th century.

Physical Description:

[8], 331, [1] pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Edition:

Third edition.

Fingerprint:

orof l-ng adhe ware (3) 1748 (R)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed and published by T. Gardner ..., MDCCXLVIII (1748)

Notes:

"Anonymous. By Eliza Haywood."--ESTC.

"Colonel M----rs = Colonel H. Manners; Ch---es M----rs, son of the late Duke of R--l--d = Lord Charles Manners, son of the late Duke of Rutland."--ESTC.

Signatures: pi 1 a⁴(-a4) B-O¹² P¹²(-P11,P12).

Woodcut title vignette, factotum, head- and tail-pieces.

Printer's advertisements on leaves a1verso and P10verso

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has illegible ms. note at head of leaf B1r; pen tests on back pastedown.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has largely illegible autograph ("[...] B[...] Gloster") on front free endpaper.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in 19th-century half roan over marbled boards; gold-tooled spine with title ("FORTUNATE FOUNDLINGS") stamped in gold.

Cited in:

ESTC T75906

OCLC:

265031327