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The history of a merchant's widow and her young family / by Mrs. Hofland ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR4790.H8 H57 1826
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Children.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Widows--Juvenile literature.
- Widows.
- Families--Juvenile fiction.
- Families.
- Merchants--Juvenile fiction.
- Merchants.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Raban, William (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Raban, G. (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- [2], 176 pages, [2] leaves of plates : 1 illustration ; 15 cm
- Edition:
- Sixth edition.
- Manufacture:
- Yarmouth : Sloman, printer ...
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for A.K. Newman and Co. ..., 1826.
- Notes:
- Added engraved title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Marlborough Rare Books.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("William Raban June 1829"), struck through, on blank leaf preceding frontispiece; dated 19th-century autograph ("G. Raban 1858") on blank leaf preceding frontispiece.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in full mottled dark brown calf(?); boards tooled in gold and blind; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; 3 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; title and author's name stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled; green silk marker.
- Cited in:
- Gumuchian 3050
- OCLC:
- 10869118
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