Search Results: the death of abel in five by collyer mary

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Sharon, Vt. : Z. J. & L. Burbank, 1829. First Edition. Hardback. Good copy with stain toning throughout, particularly at the gatherings. Binding original but worn. Scans on request; 163 pages; Description: Two volumes in one. Subjects: Subjects: The Bible - Biblical figures. Language: English. Translated from German. Thus.

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T. Heptinstall,. Good with no dust jacket. 1797. 1. Leather. b/w; [2],xi,[1],275,[1] pages; Engraved title showing a rather devilish looking cherubic brother, portrait frontis, and six plates by Thomas Stothard. Front cover detached. Mild spotting to first two leaves, otherwise VG throughout. .

Newburyport: Printed by Edmund M. Blunt, 1794. Hardcover. Fair. Early edition. 24mo. 184, 84pp. Original leather covered boards with most of the original red morocco label. Board are very worn, and crudely stitched at the joints, leather has eroded, a worn copy. Collyer's translation of Gessner, with her own compositon following.

1837. Halifax, Printed fro William Milner, 1837. Duodecimo / Miniature book. Frontispiece, XX, 169 pages. Original Hardcover (dark green cloth with floral embossement and gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare Halifax print ! History of the Halifax Printer William Milner: Born to a single mother in Halifax in October 1803, William Milner was apprenticed as a youth to a printer in Hebden Bridge. After a stint as a grocer, he began publishing books himself, initially using local printers Hartley & Walker, or Whitley & Booth. Then he set up his own printing press at Swine Market (now upper Crown Street). It was here that he published John Fielden's revolutionary book The Curse of the Factory System in 1836. Moving his business to Upper George Yard, Cheapside, he began to publish his series called Cottage Library which were said to be the cheapest books in Britain. At one time he was printing 15,000 books per day, sold at sixpence (2 new pence) and 1… Read More

New York: S. Campbell, 1794. Hardcover. Good. 237, [3], 98 p.: frontispiece; 14 cm. Signatures: A-U6; A-H6 I6(-I2-6) (12mo). Contemporary calf with modern archival spine and hinge repair. Remains of gilt-tooled spine label with title: Cain and Abel. Two unnumbered pages of publisher's advertisements follow text. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans), 27049; Rosenbach, Children's Books, 174. Bound with: Mary Collyer's The Death of Cain: in Five Books; After the Manner of The Death of Abel by a Lady (New York: S. Campbell, 1794). Published anonymously; attributed to Mary Collyer by Halkett & Laing. Early Am. Imprints, ser. I (Evans) 26858. Former owners' inscriptions on front endpapers and title page of The Death of Cain for Samuel Worrall (1806) and Lydia Worrall (1809). Extremely scarce. The Death of Cain lacks final 20 pages (pp. 99-119); otherwise in Good Condition: cover is worn; lacking 3x2 cm. of frontispiece; pp. xi-xii is detached but present; lower corner of pp.… Read More

New-York: Printed and Sold by William Durell, at his Book Store and Printing-Office, 1792. First American edition (of this translation). 24mo. Covers are worn, lacking original paper-covering (exposing wooden boards), uneven one-inch chip (in width) along length of fore-edge to boards on both covers, title page has short closed tear, few tiny spots of worming at lower edge (with very slight loss to publisher's imprint), else a good, sound copy. First American edition (of this translation). 24mo. Mary Collyer (1716/17-1762/63), novelist and translator, is the author of 'Virtuous Orphan,' 'Felicia to Charlotte,' and 'Memoirs of the Countess de Bressol'. 'The Death of Cain' is Mary Collyer's translation of Salomon Gessner's 'Der Tod Abels' [see Blain et al. The Feminist Companion of Literature in English, p. 227]. Scarce [OCLC locates only the Library of Congress Copy]. Bristol B7960; Shipton & Mooney 46414

London : Printed for B. Crosby, 1797.. Original roan, new roan spine with 4 bands preserving original label. 24mo. xxii, 147 pp. + pages of publications by Crosby. Engraved frontispiece after Stothard. OCLC Number: 753411621 in digitized version.