The discovery, or, The mysterious separation of H. D., Esq. and Ann his wife / by H.D., esq.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doherty, Hugh, active 18th century-19th century.

Contributor:

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

James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Doherty, Hugh, active 18th century-19th century.

Doherty, Hugh.

Elopement--Great Britain--19th century.

Elopement.

Women--Mental health--Great Britain--19th century.

Women.

Mental illness--Treatment--Great Britain--19th century.

Mental illness.

Penn Provenance:

Doherty, Hugh, active 18th century-19th century (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Haining, Peter (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

xcv, 223 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Other Title:

Discovery

Mysterious separation of H. D., Esq. and Ann his wife

Place of Publication:

London : Sold at no. 19, Temple Place, Blackfriars Road, nearly opposite the Circus, at no. 28, New Bond Street, and by all the booksellers, 1807.

Summary:

Polemical account of the marriage and separation of Hugh Doherty and Ann Holmes.

Notes:

"H.D." is Hugh Doherty. Cf. Halkett.

First of two planned volumes; cf. p. 220. No more were published; cf. Halkett.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has modern ms. notes in pencil on verso of back free endpaper.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers.

Singer-Mendenhall copy signed by the author on title leaf.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century ms. inscription ("S[...]o[...]s [...]ys[...]ooke 1878") on title leaf. Bookseller's description reads it as "signature of J. Wolus, Rysbrooke, 1878."

Singer-Mendenhall copy has illustrated bookplate of Peter Haining affixed to front pastedown.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in later quarter calf over contemporary marbled boards, spine tooled in gold; dated ("1807") stamped in gold at foot of spine; gold-stamped red morocco spine label ("DISCOVERY OF H. DOHERTY").

Cited in:

Block, A. English novel, 1740-1850 (1961 edition), p. 61

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), II, p. 85

OCLC:

1039847013