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Female friendship, or, The innocent sufferer : a moral novel : volume the first[-second].
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR3991.A1 F396 1797 v.1/2
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Female friendship
- Innocent sufferer
- Fingerprint:
- e-he A.c. orow edac (C) 1797 (A) v.1
- neon shme ton- hesh (3) 1797 (A) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- Hallowell [Maine] : Printed by Howard S. Robinson, for Nathaniel Cogswell, 1797.
- Notes:
- Running title: Innocent sufferer.
- Signatures: volume 1: A-L⁶ ; volume 2: [A]⁶ B-K⁶.
- Pagination: volume 1: v, 126, [1] pages ; volume 2: 120 pages.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall PR3991.A1 F396 1797 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2026 from Maggs Brothers. Bound in 1 volume. Manuscript price ("6/8d") at head of front free endpaper; largely illegible manuscript inscription in pencil on blank leaf following front free endpaper. Dated 19th-century manuscript ownership inscription ("Jotham Freeman s Book China [that is, China, Maine] Jan. the 31 1822"), probably of Jotham B. Freeman (1803-1871) on front free endpaper; autographs of the same person on blank leaf following front free endpaper; manuscript ownership inscription ("Jotham Freeman,s not his Jotham Freeman,s Book.") on page opposite title leaf; partial autograph of the same person ("Jotham Free Vassalbr [that is, Vassalboro, Maine]") on blank leaf following last printed leaf. Bookseller's description of this copy laid in."[R]ubbed, label to spine partially lacking, small piece missing just beneath headcap, corners worn through, edges rubbed, [front free endpaper] loose, dampstaining affecting first quire, spotting and browning throughout, marginal damage affecting 11 leaves with no loss of text, one quire roughly opened at top edge shaving a few characters."--Bookseller's description. Rusted nail formerly tucked into the gutter between the rear free endpapers laid in.
- Cited in:
- Evans, C. American bibliography, 32122
- Noyes, R.W. Bibliography of Maine imprints to 1820, 104
- English short title catalogue W12118
- OCLC:
- 228764266
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