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The history of Sandford & Merton : abridged from the original : embellished with elegant plates : for the amusement & instruction of juvenile minds.

Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3398.D3 A78 1793
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Day, Thomas, 1748-1789, author.
Contributor:
Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)
Standardized Title:
History of Sandford and Merton
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.
Conduct of life.
Friendship--Juvenile literature.
Friendship.
Genre:
Juvenile works.
Penn Provenance:
Ross, C., Miss (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
Brown, Alfred J. (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
Physical Description:
[1], 4-107, [5] pages, [7] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm (8vo)
Other Title:
Sandford & Merton
Sandford and Merton
Fingerprint:
t-e, e.d, Ason mobo (3) 1793 (A)
Place of Publication:
London : [publisher not identified], printed A:D 1793.
Notes:
An abridgement of the work by Thomas Day. See Osborne Coll., pages 243-244, 874-875, and Gumuchian.
Signatures: A⁸(-A1) B-G⁸ (leaves G7 and G8 blanks).
Engraved title leaf (plate) with decorative border; six engraved illustrative plates.
Local Notes:
Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Stuart Bennett.
Singer-Mendenhall copy has partially effaced dated 18th-century autograph ("Miss Ch[...] Ross December 22d 1793") on front pastedown; autograph ("Alfred J. Brown") on verso of frontispiece plate.
Cited in:
ESTC T71378
Gumuchian 2068
OCLC:
31396299

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