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The young cadet, or, Henry Delamere's voyage to India, his travels in Hindostan, his account of the Burmese War, and the wonders of Elora / by Mrs. Hofland ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR4790.H8 Y68 1827
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hofland, Mrs. (Barbara), 1770-1844, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Description and travel--Juvenile fiction.
- India.
- Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826--Juvenile fiction.
- Anglo-Burmese War, 1st, 1824-1826.
- Didactic fiction, English--19th century.
- Didactic fiction, English.
- Didactic fiction.
- Travel.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Warren, John, active 1812-1886 (label) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Smyth, Miss (inscription) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Sale, Elizabeth (inscription) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- xi, [1], 232 pages, [6] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Manufacture:
- London : Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street
- Other Title:
- Young cadet
- Henry Delamere's voyage to India, his travels in Hindostan, his account of the Burmese War, and the wonders of Elora
- Young cadet, or, Travels in Hindostan
- Place of Publication:
- London : John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, [1827]
- Notes:
- First edition. See Moon.
- Most plates have imprint: Pubd. Decr. 1, 1827, by J. Harris corner of St. Pauls. Frontispiece plate and plate opposite page 221 have imprint: Pubd. Decr. 1827, by J. Harris corner of St. Pauls.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Pickering & Chatto.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has bookseller's green label ("WARREN; PRINTER, BOOKBINDER Book & Music Seller. ROYSTON.") on front pastedown.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has dated 19th-century manuscript prize inscription ("A Prize to Miss Smyth for attention to Music Midsummer 1828") on front free endpaper; manuscript gift inscription ("Elizabeth Sale from her Nonna") on front free endpaper.
- Cited in:
- Gumuchian, 3061
- Moon, M.J. Harris' books, 376(1)
- OCLC:
- 12848461
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