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Excursions in North America : described in letters from a gentleman and his young companion, to their friends in England / by Priscilla Wakefield ...
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wakefield, Priscilla, 1751-1832.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- United States.
- Canada--Description and travel--Juvenile literature.
- Canada.
- Indians of North America--Juvenile literature.
- Indians of North America.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (bookplate) (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- x [i.e. xi], [1], 420, [4] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : col. map ; 17 cm.
- Edition:
- The second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed and sold by Darton, Harvey, and Darton ..., 1810.
- Notes:
- An epistolary fiction, comprised of letters signed "Arthur Middleton" and "Henry Franklin", providing "a general description of [North America], in the form of a tour, adapted to the taste and capacity of young readers. ... [T]he chief sources of ... information have been derived from Jefferson, Wild, Rochefoucault, Bartram, Michaux, Carver, Mackenzie, and Hearn"--Preface (p. [iii]-iv).
- Folded plate is an engraved, hand-colored map of North America with the itinerary of the tour traced in red.
- "Itinerary": P. [421]-[424].
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel with her bookplate on front pastedown.
- Schimmel Collection copy bound in half blind-tooled calf over marbled boards; 4 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("NORTH AMERICA").
- Schimmel Collection copy: portion of head margin of title leaf (with ms. inscription?) excised; tear in map.
- OCLC:
- 1046651412
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