Details

Other Title:

Frederick and Alicia
Sorrows of love

Fingerprint:

t-th o-m- ryg- gasp (3) 1791 (A) v.1
++++ ++++ ndg, liSo (3) 1791 (Q) v.2

Place of Publication:

England London.

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: v. 2: left board, all before leaf B2 (p. 3) and all after leaf K12 (p. 216) wanting.
Signatures: v. 1: [A]² B-K¹² L⁴ ; v. 2: B2-12 C-K¹²[+]
Pagination: v. 1: [4], 222, ii p. ; v. 2: p. 3-216[+]

Local notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.
Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased from Blackwell's Rare Books (Oxford) in 2015.
Singer-Mendenhall copy: v. 1: early ms. pencil tests on front pastedown and front free endpaper.
Singer-Mendenhall copy: v. 1: early autograph of Ann Davies on half-title.
Singer-Mendenhall copy: each vol. bound in one quarter sheep over marbled paper boards; leaves untrimmed at fore- and tail edges.
Singer-Mendenhall copy: v. 1: boards worn and spine damaged.
Singer-Mendenhall copy: v. 2: lower portion of leaf D4 torn off with loss of catchword and some text in last line on recto; right board worn and detached; spine damaged.

Penn Provenance:

Davies, Ann (autograph) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Penn Chronology:

1791

Cited in:

ESTC N505904
Raven, J. British fiction, 1750-1770, 1791:12

Contributor:

Couch, Christopher, active approximately 1782-1805, bookseller.
Laking, Francis, active 1789-1833, bookseller.
Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)
William and James Stratford (Firm), bookseller.
Rosengarten Family Fund.
Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund.

OCLC:

913612705

Web link:

The Rosengarten Family Fund Home Page

The Lippincott Library Book Endowment Fund Home Page