The letters of Charlotte : during her connexion with Werter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

James, William, of Denford, Berks County, Eng.

Contributor:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832., bibliographic antecedent.

Scoles, John, 1772?-1853, engraver.

Davis, William A., printer.

Gomez, Benjamin, 1769-1828, bookseller.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English fiction--18th century--Early works to 1800.

English fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Taylor, Abigail (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes (xii, [1], 14-240 pages, [1] leaf of plates) : 1 illustration ; 17 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

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Place of Publication:

New York : Printed by William A. Davis, for Benj. Gomez, bookseller and stationer, no. 97, Maiden-Lane, 1797.

Notes:

"Written in imitation of Goethe's Sorrows of Werter, and intended to counter the dangerous ideas of that work. Attributed to William James on the basis of a letter, now part of the Speck Collection of Goetheana at Yale University, from James to the London publisher Cadell."--ESTC.

Issued in 1 volume.

Signatures: volume 1: A-K⁶ ; volume 2: A-K⁶.

Pagination is continuous.

"Frontispiece engraved by John Scoles."--ESTC.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Jarndyce.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has autographs of Abigail Taylor on front free endpaper.

Cited in:

ESTC W13555

Evans, 32314

Related Work:

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Leiden des jungen Werthers, bibliographic antecedent.

OCLC:

1243127