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It went through two more London editions this year, and eight by 1789. Each copy of the first four editions ends with SLP 's printed signature or manual sign, S. Pennington (as can be...

This reached a fourth edition in 1814; a copy of one edition in the British Library contains manuscript notes. This was just one of a number of collections (for instance, The Prophecies of Joanna Southcott...

This novel had two issues and a French translation in 1801. Carol Stewart edited it, together with Life's Progress through the Passions, 1748, for the Chawton House Library Series in 2013. The Chawton House Library

The British Library possesses only the Boston, Massachusetts, edition of HM 's French Wines and Politics, while the five copies of the London edition listed by OCLC WorldCat are all in the USA...

She received £63 for the copyright; 1,250 copies were printed. The portrait in the British Library copy is an insertion, although the English Short Title Catalogue mentions it as integral to the edition.

The novel was reprinted in volume form in 1880 by J. and R. Maxwell .

A second edition appeared in 1805 and a fifth in 1807. An undated one from William Darton , which claims to be the eighth, is dated by the British Library to around 1830.

It bore a quotation from Montaigne on the title-page. AMB says the errors in her text sprang from its having been written far from home (in Edinburgh), in the greatest Distress, both of Mind...

The book bears her name, in the form Adélaïde D. O'Keeffe: an apparent de-anglicization.

The British Library copy of The Unequal Conflict is fashionably bound, like that of The Rash Resolve, in red leather with gold-tooled Harleian borders, marbled endpapers, and a decorated, embossed spine. The unique copy...

Erasmus had published his commentary at Basel in Switzerland in 1523. The full title of Roper's translation was A Devout Treatise upon the Pater Noster, made fyrst in latyn by the moost famous doctour mayster...

This had five London and two Dublin editions and a German translation (which itself had six editions).Carol Stewart produced a scholarly facsimile edition for the Chawton House Library Series in 2014, basing her...

In mid-career AC said she had worked mainly with women as her publishers' editors. Shared gender makes a difference in this relationship, she wrote, even if the reader has zero feminist consciousness. Her two...

The poem was part-finished at the beginning of the year. Like Holford's previous book it is dedicated to her mother , from whom, she writes, she imbibed and inherited the taste which...

Early editions are very rare. Children's book scholar and collector Peter Opie recorded in 1965 his excitement on acquiring a probable second edition of this beloved classic, dating from 1858, to go with his probable...