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Clare et Emmeline, ou, La bénédiction maternelle : nouvelle / par l'auteur de Louise, ou, De la chaumiere ; & traduite de l'anglais par M. Soulés.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR4779.H8 C514 1788 t .1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Helme, Elizabeth, -1814?, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Clara and Emmeline. French.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Epistolary fiction, English--18th century--Translations into French--Early works to 1800.
- Epistolary fiction, English.
- English fiction--18th century--Translations into French--Early works to 1800.
- English fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- La Leyen, François-Charles, comte de (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- La Leyen, Philippe-François, prince de (stamp) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- ueux re.- s;re gaqu (3) 1788 (A) v.1
- u-He r-ui e,e. "q"H (3) 1788 (A) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- A Londres [i.e. Paris?] : chez Kearsley ; et se trouve, a Paris : chez Lagrange, libraire, rue Saint-Honoré, près le Palais-Royal, 1788.
- Language Note:
- French translation of: Clara and Emmeline.
- Notes:
- "L’auteur de Louise ..." is Elizabeth Helme. See ESTC.
- "Probably printed in Paris; George Kearsley published the original London edition."--ESTC.
- Signatures: tome 1: a⁴ A-G¹² ; tome 2: pi² A-G¹² H⁸.
- Pagination: tome 1: viij, 167, [1] pages ; tome 2: [4], 183, [1] pages.
- Errata at end of tome 2.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in one volume.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Samuel Gedge Ltd.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has on front pastedown armorial bookplate ("Bibliothèque de Mr. le Cte. de la Leyen.") of the library of comte François-Charles de la Leyen (1736-1775), continued by his widow Marie-Anne-Josèphe de Dalberg (-1804), confiscated and partially dispersed in 1793. See C. Hiegel, "Nicolas-Antoine Baur, commissaire-bibliographe du district de Sarreguemines (1794-1795)," Annuaire de la Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de la Lorraine (2009), pages 64, 70.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has on title leaf red armorial stamp ("FÜRSTLICH VON DER LEYEN BIBLIOTHEC"), probably of the library of prince Philippe-François de la Leyen (1766-1829; son of comte François-Charles de la Leyen), who was raised to that rank in 1806.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in contemporary half leather over marbled boards; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped brown leather title leaf; volume numbers stamped in gold on spine; yellow silk marker; all edges red.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T209250
- OCLC:
- 61506703
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