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Struggles of Capt. Thomas Keith in America : including the manner in which he, his wife and child were decoyed by the Indians : their temporary captivity, and happy deliverance : interspersed with occasional descriptions of the United States, soil, productions, &c.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Keith, Thomas, active 1794-1795--Fiction.
- Keith, Thomas.
- Indian captivities--North America--Fiction.
- Indian captivities.
- Chapbooks, English.
- Keith, Thomas, active 1794-1795.
- North America.
- Genre:
- Fiction
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Davis, T. (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- [3], 8-28 pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm
- Other Title:
- Struggles of Captain Keith
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Thomas Tegg, 111, Cheapside, [1808]
- Notes:
- Fictionalized biography.
- Running title: Struggles of Captain Keith.
- Other similar titles printed by T. Tegg have added title page: The mariners' marvellous magazine, or, Wonders of the ocean.
- "Plummer, Printer"--Page 28.
- Imprint date from frontispiece.
- "Price only sixpence."--Title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("T. Davis 1809 9[?]/2") on title leaf.
- Schimmel Collection copy: frontispiece closely cropped at tail margin with loss of imprint date.
- OCLC:
- 33331225
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