Edwin and Emma
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Edwin and Emma
Other titles: Baskerville's original edition of Edwin and Emma, first printed in the year MDCCLX [1760]
Classmark: Blavatnik Honresfield Library BHL 15
Creator(s): Mallet, David (1705?-1765)
Additional creator(s): Comerford, James (1806-1881) (Former owner); Arnald, George (1763-1841) (Illustrator); Baskerville, John (1706-1775) (Printer); Blavatnik Honresfield Library (Former owner)
Publisher: Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Paternoster-Row. Printed by J. Mc Creery, Black-Horse-Court, London
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1810
Language: English
Size and medium: 14 numbered pages, iii, [1], page 15
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/731298
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019909965505181
Description
Includes: "Extract of a letter from the Curate of Bowes in Yorkshire, on the subject of the preceding poem".
First printed in Birmingham by John Baskerville, for A. Millar [London] in the Strand, 1760.
Baskerville's edition was reissued in 1810 by Longman, Hurst etc.
Two title pages. Remainder of edition of 100 copies, enlarged with postscript and set of five plates.
Contents: p. [1]-14, Edwin and Emma -- p. [i]-iii, Postscript -- p. 15, Advertisement.
Indexed in: Gaskell,
Indexed in: Straus and Dent
Indexed in: ESTC
Features
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 15: excerpt from bookseller's catalogue no 2487, for this item pasted onto front pastedown.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 15: contemporary [19th century] quarter calf, red paper over boards, gold tooled on spine: Arnold's Edwin and Emma.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at BHL 15: Given from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the National Libraries, 2022. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown: James Comerford [i.e. James Comerford (1806-1881), antiquarian and book collector, see Franks 6551]. MS. annotations on front pastedown by bookseller about Baskerville original edition: 100 only printed.
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