The complete letter-writer : containing familiar letters on the most common occasions in life : also a variety of elegant letters for the direction and embellishment of style, on business, duty, amusement, love, courtship, marriage, friendship, and other subjects : to which is prefixed, a plain and compendious English grammar : with directions for writing letters, and the proper forms of address : at the end are given, forms of message-cards, and a copious English spelling-dictionary.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Letter writing--Early works to 1800.

Letter writing.

Penn Provenance:

Stocks, David (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Turnbull, William (inscription) (former owner) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

300 pages ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

heor r.a- s.ll cais (7) 1776 (A)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : [publisher not identified], printed in the year 1776.

Notes:

Signatures: A-2B⁶.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Blackwell's Rare Books with assistance from the Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy has illustrated bookplate of David Stocks on front pastedown; early manuscript ownership inscription ("William Turnbull his Book") on title leaf; initials "W.T" on leaf Z3r.

OCLC:

314507045

Online:

The Zachs-Adam Rare Book Fund Home Page