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The companion : being a choice collection of the most admired pieces from the best authors, in prose and verse / by a society of gentlemen.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR1109 .C6 1790 v.1-4
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--Early works to 1800.
- English literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Askew, D. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Distribution:
- Edinburgh Printed for Watson, Elder and Company ..., 1790-1791.
- Manufacture:
- [Edinburgh]: : Printed by Mundell and Son.
- [Edinburgh] : Printed by A. Chapman and Co.
- Fingerprint:
- o.e, oft- toin "w"b (3) 1790 (A) v.1
- o.to heen s.s, AnHe (3) 1790 (A) v.2
- o.he heat e!e, Iswi (3) 1791 (A) v.3
- m-as rynk s;s, AnTh (3) 1791 (A) v.4
- Notes:
- Volume 4 has imprint: Edinburgh: Printed for James Watson and Company, Parliament Close. 1791.
- Volumes 1-2 printed by Mundell and Son; volume 3 printed by A. Chapman and Co.
- Signatures: volume 1: a⁶ A-Z⁶ 2A² ; volume 2: pi⁴ A-F⁶ [G]⁶ H-2B⁶ 2C⁴ ; volume 3: pi⁴ A-2C 2D² ; volume 4: [superscript pi]A⁴ B-2C⁶ 2D². .
- Volume 2: leaves of gathering [G] signed F; leaf K1 signed "H".
- Pagination: volume 1: xii, 280 pages ; volume 2: viii, 307, [1] pages ; volume 3: viii, 316 pages ; volume 4: viii, 314, [2] pages.
- Bookseller's advertisement on last printed page of volume 2 and last printed leaf of volume 4.
- "The preface to v. 1 states that publication is planned for six volumes. A fourth volume was apparently printed ... [T]he prefatory note to the 1799 issues states that the original plan of six volumes has been reduced to four"--ESTC.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy imperfect: volumes 1-3: half-titles wanting; volume 4: leaves 2A4-2A6 wanting.
- Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Antiquates Fine and Rare Books with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.
- Kislak Center copy: each volume has dated 18th-century autograph ("D: Askew September 1799") on verso of front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T76193
- OCLC:
- 30014144
- Online:
- The Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund Home Page
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