Title
details for
Tales of Fancy:
| Year: |
1816. |
| Author(s): |
Sarah Harriet BURNEY
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| Gender: |
Female. |
| Title: |
TALES OF FANCY: BY S. H. BURNEY, AUTHOR OF 'CLARENTINE,' 'GERALDINE FAUCONBERG,' AND 'TRAITS OF NATURE.'
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| Publication: |
London:
Printed for Henry Colburn, Public Library, Conduit Street, Hanover Square, 1816/20. |
| Format: |
3 vols (I (1816) viii, 400p; II (1820) 432p; III (1820) 470p). 12°. |
| Cat. nos: |
MH-H 18477.42.2; ECB 87; EN2 1816: 20; NSTC 2B60607; OCLC 11715314. |
| Notes: |
T.p. to vol. 1 also gives the title of the tale which makes up this volume, 'The Shipwreck'. Those to vols 2 and 3 similarly announce 'Country Neighbours; or the Secret', while describing Burney as 'author of Clarentine, Traits of Nature &c.'; imprint details remain unchanged, apart from the addition of '& Co.' after Colburn and the changed date. Dedication in vol. 1 to the Right Hon. Lady Crewe, dated Chelsea College, 1 Dec 1815; dedication in vol. 2 'to Her Royal Highness the Princess Elizabeth, Hereditary Princess of Hesse Hombourg', signed Sarah Harriet Burney. Colophon in vol. 1 reads: 'B. Clarke, Printer, Well Street, London'; in vols 2 and 3: 'Printed by J. Nichols and Son, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London'. |
| Further edns: |
2nd edn 1816/20 (Corvey), CME 3-628-47145-1; Boston 1816 (NSTC); French trans., of 'The Shipwreck' 1815 and of 'Country Neighbours' 1820; German trans., of 'The Shipwreck' 1821. |
| DBF record no: |
1816A020. |
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