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Book/Printed Material Original stories from real life with conversations, calcuated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness

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About this Item

Title

  • Original stories from real life with conversations, calcuated to regulate the affections, and form the mind to truth and goodness

Names

  • Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827, illustrator.
  • Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, bookseller.
  • VanWingen, Peter, 1948-1995, associated name.
  • Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

Created / Published

  • London : Printed for J. Johnson ..., 1791.

Headings

  • -  Didactic fiction, English
  • -  Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction
  • -  England--London

Genre

  • Juvenile literature--1791

Notes

  • -  Plates designed and engraved by William Blake; frontispiece signed: Blake, d & sc.
  • -  Printer's advertisements on final three pages.
  • -  Signatures: A⁶ B-H¹² I⁶.
  • -  Library of Congress. Lessing J. Rosenwald collection, 1817
  • -  English short title catalogue, T43449
  • -  Keynes, G.L. Bibliography of W. Blake (New York, 1921), 69
  • -  LC copy imperfect: final leaf wanting; bound in gold stamped calf.
  • -  Source: Purchase (DLC #282688), 1920.
  • -  Recat to AACR2: qr09 04-06-95
  • -  Copy 3 to be shelved with Rosenwald copy per P. VanWingen 04-07-95
  • -  LAC tnb 2019-12-27 no edits (2 cards)
  • -  LAC ddw 2022-04-12 update (1 card)

Medium

  • viii, [4], 177, [3], p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PR5841.W8 O7 1791
  • PR5841.W8 O7 1791 Copy 2 Copy 2. Rosenwald item 1817. Inscription on title page: Frances Moslyn Edwards. In protective quarter bound morocco slip case.
  • PR5841.W8 O7 1791 Copy 3 Copy 3. Hand colored plates, allegedly contemporary, possibly by the printer as a trial colored copy. Repaired and reinforced: endpapers, t.p., frontispiece, plate [5], final leaf; original worn leather spine attached. Inscription on front paste-down: Miss Harriet Moore, May 29, 1807. Rehoused by LC: detached calf binding, quarter -bound solander box. Source: Purchase, 1994. Shelved with Rosenwald copy; accompanied by: Into the mystic / Peter VanWingen (from Library of Congress Information bulletin, v. 53, no. 22, Nov. 28, 1994).

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 21007609

Online Format

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  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Wollstonecraft, Mary, William Blake, Joseph Johnson, Peter Vanwingen, and Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. Original Stories from Real Life With Conversations, Calcuated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/21007609/.

APA citation style:

Wollstonecraft, M., Blake, W., Johnson, J., Vanwingen, P. & Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection. (1791) Original Stories from Real Life With Conversations, Calcuated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness. London: Printed for J. Johnson. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/21007609/.

MLA citation style:

Wollstonecraft, Mary, et al. Original Stories from Real Life With Conversations, Calcuated to Regulate the Affections, and Form the Mind to Truth and Goodness. London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1791. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/21007609/>.