Tales of a briefless barrister : in three volumes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scargill, William Pitt, 1787-1836, author.

Contributor:

Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley (Firm), publisher.

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legal stories.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

Stirling Maxwell, John, 1866-1956 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

3 volumes ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1829.

Contents:

Volumes 1-3. Second thoughts are best

volume 3. New neighbours.

Notes:

Written by William Pitt Scargill. See Halkett.

Publisher's advertisement at end of volume 2.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in two volumes: first volume contains volume 1 and pages 1-170 of volume 2; second volume contains pages 171-309 of volume 2 and volume 3. Title leaf of volume 2 inserted at beginning of second volume; title page of volume 3 wanting.

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Jarndyce.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume has armorial bookplate ("Maxwell. OF Polloc."), probably of John Stirling Maxwell, with manuscript shelf-mark (volume 1: "U.2.1."; volume 2: "U.2.2.") on front pastedown.

Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume bound in full contemporary deep pink calf; boards double-ruled in gold and tooled in blind; 4 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped green leather spine labels; marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.

Cited in:

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), VI, page 6

OCLC:

5257601