Account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland / edited by Lady Mary Fox.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fox, Mary, Lady, 1798-1864, author.

Whately, Richard, 1787-1863, author.

Contributor:

Bentley, Richard, 1794-1871, publisher.

Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868, printer.

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Australia--Description and travel--Fiction.

Australia.

Travel.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Reading Society Held at Mr. Tibnam's (Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury, England) (former owner) (RBC copy)

Acton, William Stackhouse (inscription) (RBC copy)

Davies, John (autograph) (RBC copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 243, [1] pages ; 21 cm

Manufacture:

London : Printed by Samuel Bentley ...

Place of Publication:

London : Richard Bentley ..., 1837.

Notes:

A politico-philosophical romance.

Partly written by Richard Whately. See W.J. Fitzpatrick, Memoirs of Richard Whately; attributed by the "Australasian bibliography" to Dr. Whately.

Local Notes:

RBC copy has manuscript shelf-mark ("XXXVI.9.18") on front pastedown; manuscript numerals in ink ("539") and pencil ("4059") struck through in pencil on front pastedown; manuscript note ("2/6 638") in pencil on front pastedown.

RBC copy purchased for the Penn Libraries from John Drury Rare Books in 2019

RBC copy has membership list of "the Reading Society, held at Mr. Tibnam's Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury" with form for recording the dates on which this book was borrowed and returned by each member on front pastedown and form for recording offer prices for the book by the members on front free endpaper. The length of the borrowing period, the name of person who ordered the book ("Wm Stackhouse Acton") and some dates on which it was borrowed and returned are supplied in manuscript on front pastedown; the amount of "half the original price of this work" ("5/3") is supplied in manuscript on front free endpaper.

RBC copy has "Rules and regulations of the Reading Society, held at Mr. Tibnam's, bookseller, Wyle Cop, Shrewsbury." on verso of back free endpaper and back pastedown.

RBC copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Jno Davies 1862") in pencil on front pastedown.

RBC copy has "New books published or preparing for publication, by Whittaker and Co., Ave-Maria Lane, London." (12 pages), dated January 1837, bound in at beginning of volume.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Fox, Mary, Lady. Account of an expedition to the interior of New Holland.

OCLC:

6634968