Polish letters : translated from the original unpublished manuscript (v.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Polish letters : translated from the original unpublished manuscript (v.2)
Other titles: Lettres polonaises
Classmark: Pencheon Collection MAR
Creator(s): Marat, Jean Paul (1743-1793)
Additional creator(s): Dole, Nathan Haskell (1852-1935) (Writer of supplementary textual content); Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner); Bibliophile Society (Boston, Mass.) (Publisher); Plimpton Press (Printer)
Related people: Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793; Marat, Jean Paul, 1743-1793
Publisher: Issued by the Bibliophile Society for members only; Plimpton Press, Printers and Binders
Publication city: Boston
Date(s): 1904
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/777152
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020274897205181
Description
Publication date from Bibliophile Society edition statement.
"Copyright 1905"--Title page verso
"Four hundred and forty-five copies of this work on Italian handmade paper, and six copies on Japanese vellum, have been printed for members. Ten additional copies have been issued complimentary to Mr. William K. Bixby, the owner of the original manuscript"--Preliminary page
"This edition is limited to 461 copies."--Bibliophile Society edition statement page preceding text
"Later, in a novel of a similar nature, Les lettres polonaises, which was probably written... ©1772, the hero was filled with great admiration for the English monarchial constitution, and with contempt for the common people"--Gottschalk, Louis R. "The radicalism of Jean Paul Marat." Sewanee Review 29 (Jan.-Mar. 1921): 155-170
Biographical sketch by N.H. Dole.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection MAR: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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