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The little emigrant, a tale : interspersed with moral anecdotes and instructive conversations : designed for the perusal of youth / by the author of The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, Visit for a week, Juvenile magazine, &c &c.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3617.P56 L5 1799
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816, author, publisher.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Friendship--Juvenile fiction.
- Friendship.
- Christian life--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian life.
- Kindness--Juvenile fiction.
- Kindness.
- Reunions--Juvenile fiction.
- Reunions.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Juvenile works.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Physical Description:
- [2], ii, 203, [1 ]pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 18 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- onat teo- a-is afha (3) 1799 (A)
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by S. Low, Berwick Street, Soho, for the author, at the Juvenile Library, no. 259, Oxford Street : and sold by Messrs. Carpenter, Old Bond Street, C. Law, Ave-Maria Lane, and E. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul’s Church Yard, 1799.
- Notes:
- "The author of The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon" is Lucy Peacock. See ESTC.
- Signatures: [A]² B-I¹² K⁶.
- Engraved plate (frontispiece illustration).
- "(Entered at Stationers' Hall.)"--Verso of title leaf.
- Publisher's advertisement at end of volume.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has manuscript inscription, struck through and illegible, on verso of frontispiece plate.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Antiquates.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century manuscript provenance inscription ("Elisabeth I M[...] Dishforth April 17 1874 A present From A Frend") in pencil on verso of frontispiece plate.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: leaf B12 bound in out of order after leaf C1; portion of fore-edge margin of leaf K6 torn off and mended with clear tape.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T118008
- OCLC:
- 252411156
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