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The travels of Zoroaster, king of the Bactrians : composed chiefly for the instruction of a young prince.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3291.A1 T736 1753 copy 2 v.1-3
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3291.A1 T736 1753 v.1-3
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Voyages and travels--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Voyages and travels.
- Bactria--History--Fiction--Early works to 1800.
- Bactria.
- Travel in literature.
- Asia--Bactria.
- Genre:
- History.
- Booksellers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gibbons, John (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Smith, Edward (autograph) (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy 2)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- rya- inon n-t- "L"s (3) 1753 (R) v.1
- ysa- i-ng eme) futo (3) 1753 (R) v.2
- o-at o-.A ,Iew Pesh (3) 1753 (R) v.3
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed, and sold by J. Fuller, at the Bible and Dove : J. Fuller, in Butcherhall Lane ; [Nottingham] : J. Heath, at Nottingham ; [Hull] : A. Bently, at Hull ; [Newcastle upon Tyne] : J. Fleming, at New-Castle on Tyne ; [Chatham] : Mr. Neal, at Chatham ; [Bath] : and Mr. Matthews, at Bath, MDCCLIII [1753]
- Notes:
- Signatures: volume 1: [A]1 a¹² b⁶ B-M¹² N⁶ ; volume 2: A⁴ B-O¹² P⁸ ; volume 3: [A]1 a⁴ B-M¹² N¹²(-N12).
- Pagination: volume 1: xxxv, [3], 273, [3] pages ; volume 2: [8], 328 pages ; volume 3: [10] 286 pages.
- Woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces.
- Bookseller's advertisement at end of volume 1.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy 2 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2021 from Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy 2: each volume has autograph ("Edwd Smith 1779") on front pastedown; armorial bookplate (arms: per bend indented azure and or, two crosses molines counterchanged; crest: a martlet displayed) of "Edwd. Smith Esqr. St. Stephens, near St. Albans, Herts.") on front pastedown.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy 2: volume 3: hole in leaf N5 with minimal damage to text.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T107737
- Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 176
- Block, A. Engl. novel (2nd ed.) p. 238
- OCLC:
- 7748780
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