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Popular stories, or, Entertaining tales : &. &c., volume 1

Dateapproximately 1820
FormatBook
Notes
Each volume embellished with six engravings.
A collection of over thirty stories, anecdotes and poems.
Imperfect copy: one plate in the second volume is wanting.
The plates, engraved by Ray, Sharpe, Hull, Potts and others after W. Grainger, were published by and for I. Roe in 1805 and 1806.
(Partial contents): Vol. 1. The water spectre / by Sarah Wilkinson -- The history of Fair Rosamond -- Love and madness : an elegy / written by T. Campbell, in 1795 -- Vol. 2. Albert of Werdendorff, or, The midnight embrace / by S. Wilkinson -- The captive mother / by Helena Maria Williams -- The sleeping beauty in the wood / by Sarah Wilkinson -- The travellers, or, Prince of China / by Sarah Wilkinson -- The maid of Sicily, or, The lady of the tomb / by Sarah Wilkinson -- Vol. 3. Hunter of the Alps / by Sarah Wilkinson -- Blue Beard, or, Female curiosity / corrected and enlarged by S. Wilkinson -- The shepherdess of the Alps / by M. Marmontel -- The foundling of the forest, or, The brother & sister / by Sarah Wilkinson.
Subject
    DimensionsCover size: 14 cm x 9 cm (5 1/2 in. x 3 9/16 in.)
    Language
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object Number37131053604666D