A peep at the Esquimaux, or, Scenes on the ice : to which is annexed, A polar pastoral : with forty coloured plates, from original designs / by a lady.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lyon, Lucy, attributed name.

Love, Mary, attributed name.

Thomas, H. R., publisher.

Sears, W., printer.

Westley and Tyrrell, publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eskimos.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Rynone, Charles Edward (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Stacy, John, active 1819-1832 (label) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Greene, Martin L. (Martin Lee), 1939- (bookplate) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

viii, 58, [4] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by W. Sears, 45, Gutter Lane, Cheapside.

Other Title:

Peep at the Esquimaux

Scenes on the ice

Polar pastoral

Place of Publication:

London : H.R. Thomas, Juvenile Repository, 7, Hanover Street, Hanover Square ; Dublin : Westley and Tyrrell, 11, Lower Sackville Street, 1825.

Notes:

"The work is generally attributed to Lucy Lyon, the wife of the polar explorer, George Francis Lyon. However, others believe it is by May Love, a native Canadian"--Vendor's catalog.

Hand-colored illustrations.

In verse.

Publisher's advertisement at end of volume.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2017 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has dated 19th-century manuscript inscription ("Charles Edward Rynone 1834") on front pastedown.

Schimmel Collection copy has laid in: photoreproduction of title leaf with bookseller's printed description of another copy of this edition (with manuscript note in blue ink: Henry Stevens 3/93) affixed to verso; newspaper clipping from The star (11 February 1963) with headline: Identity of artist revealed recently; bookseller's printed description of another copy of this edition (with manuscript note in blue ink: MERIDIAN 11/10); 3 x 5 index card with bookseller's printed description of another copy of this edition affixed to both sides and manuscript notes in ink and pencil on recto.

Schimmel Collection copy has bookseller's label ("J. STACY Bookseller NORWICH"), possibly of John Stacy (active 1819-1832) on front pastedown; bookplate ("ex libris MARTIN L. GREENE seattle") of Dr. Martin Lee Greene (b. 1939) on front pastedown.

Cited in:

Lande, L.M. Lawrence Lande Collection, 2066

Lande, L.M. Lawrence Lande Collection, S1760

OCLC:

33367805