An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, in the History of the Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel.
An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, in the History of the Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel. | Rare and modern books | Novel. [Corp (Harriet)]
Rare and modern books
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London: Printed by Townsend & Co., for Williams and Smith, 1808.,
An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, in the History of the Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel.
An Antidote to the Miseries of Human Life, in the History of the Widow Placid, and her daughter Rachel. | Rare and modern books | Novel. [Corp (Harriet)]
Rare and modern books
Novel. [Corp (Harriet)]
London: Printed by Townsend & Co., for Williams and Smith, 1808.,
118.76 €
(Grantham,
United Kingdom)
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- NOVEL ENGLISH LITERATURE JAMES WATT
Description
Third edition, corrected, 12mo, viii, 234, [2]pp., with final advert leaf, inscribed on the title ìMrs. Watt 1808î, lacks front free endpaper, bottom outer corner of M2 missing with no loss of text, original boards, uncut, lower part of back-strip missing, otherwise a nice copy. First published in 1807, in response in part to James Beresfordís ìThe Miseries of Human Lifeî (1806), which was not itself in the form of a fictional narrative. Sold in the Sothebyís James Watt sale, 20 March 2003, in lot 162. Raven, The English Novel, 1807:14.
