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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.
- 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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