The adventures of the six princesses of Babylon, in their travels to the temple of virtue : an allegory : dedicated by permission, to her Royal Highness the Princess Mary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.

Contributor:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Spenser, Edmund.

Allegories--Juvenile works.

Allegories.

Genre:

Subscription lists (Publishing) -- Great Britain -- 18th century.

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Mendenhall, John C. (donor)

Physical Description:

xxiv, xxi*-xxii*, xxv-xxxi pages, 1 unnumbered page, 131 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm (20 in 4s)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for the author by T. Bensley; and sold by J. Buckland ...; J. Pridden ...; and by the author at A. Perfetia's ..., 1785.

Notes:

The dedication is signed: Lucy Peacock. Lambeth, June, 1785.

"A perusal of Spencer's Fairy Queen...first suggested to her mind the idea of personifying them in a more familiar language...as might give an early impression of virtue to young minds:" p. vii-viii.

Signatures: pi4, b-f2, chi2, A-Q4, R2.

List of subscribers on p. ix-xxiv.

End of text has been signed by the author.

Local Notes:

Imperfect: p. [i]-[ii] (half-title) wanting.

Cited in:

ESTC (RLIN) N51179

English novel, 1770-1829, 1785:40

Block, A. Engl. novel (1961 ed.), p.180

Contains:

Six princesses of Babylon.

Adventures of the six princesses of Babylon.

OCLC:

13440754