Midsummer Holidays at Briar s Hall; or, Summer Mornings Improved.

[FINCH, CATHERINE?] -

Verlag: London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828.

Beschreibung

viii, 269, [3]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece and five plates, each with two vignettes, the last showing a steam-engine, with a terminal leaf of publisher s advertisements; plates spotted, a couple of marginal tears, and some gatherings a bit sprung but secure. Original roan-backed printed boards, spine gilt; rubbed and worn, but the binding sound. First edition, a series of "short, detached pieces," many in dialogue format. "Are not," the author asks, "many of the works written for youth too exciting - too much in the style of novels; beginning, indeed, with the history of children, but often ending in romance?" The Dartons G634, noting (at G342) the firm s purchase in 1827 of the copyright of a work by Catherine Finch titled "Summer Mornings" and suggesting the possibility that this, with its expanded title, may be it. Osborne Collection, pp. 912-13. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 13178

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Titel: Midsummer Holidays at Briar s Hall; or, ...

Verlag: London: Printed for Harvey and Darton, 1828.

Einband: Hardcover

Auflage: 1. Auflage