The monk : a romance in three volumes / by M.G. Lewis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lewis, M. G. (Matthew Gregory), 1775-1818.

Contributor:

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

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Monks--Spain--Fiction.

Monks.

Temptation--Fiction.

Temptation.

Sin--Fiction.

Sin.

Devil--Christianity--Fiction.

Devil.

Penn Provenance:

Baker, George Fales, 1863-1929 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

3 v. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[S.l. : s.n.], 1807.

Notes:

Originally published in 1795.

Houghton Library copy identified as "[a] reissue, with cancel t.-p.'s, of the Paris edition published the same year by Theophilus Barrois, jr.; plates accompanying the other issue are not present here." Cf. its online library catalog record.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Steven Temple Books.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has illustrated bookplate of George Fales Baker, M.D., laid in.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has laid in printed paper slip with bookseller's description another edition of this work laid in; printed paper slip with bookseller's description of another edition of this work tipped in before blank leaf preceding title leaf of v. 1; printed paper slip from bookseller's catalog with information about this work tipped in before blank leaf preceding title leaf of v. 1.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in 1 vol. in modern quarter red goat over marbled boards; 4 raised bands on spine; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("THE MONK LEWIS"); blank leaf with printed paper slip (from original wrappers?) containing title, author's surname, volume number and date affixed inserted before each vol.; untrimmed edges.

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

OCLC:

123158470