The Absentee: a Tale, by Miss Edgeworth, Author of Practical Education, Essay on Irish Bulls, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Parent's Assistant, Moral Tales, &c. In Two Volumes.

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Title The Absentee: a Tale, by Miss Edgeworth, Author of Practical Education, Essay on Irish Bulls, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Parent's Assistant, Moral Tales, &c. In Two Volumes.
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Signed Author by Miss Edgeworth, Author of Practical Education, Essay on Irish Bulls, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Parent's Assistant, Moral Tales, &c.
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Pagination I 150; II 140, [2]
Date of Publication 1812
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Imprint Published by William Cooper.
Colophon W. Cooper, Printer.
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Location of Printing Washington US
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Length (cm) 18
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"The absentee is not intended as a censure upon those, whose duties, and employments, and superior talents, lead them to the capital; but to warn the thoughtless and the unoccupied from seeking distinction by frivolous imitation of fashion and ruinous waste of fortune. ... Irish agents are here described as of two different species. That there have been bad and oppressive Irish agents, many great landed English proprietors have felt; that there are well informed, just, and honorable Irish agents, every day's experience can testify. R.L. Edgeworth. May, 1812."--Preface, p. [3].
"W. Cooper, printer."--colophon, v. 2.
Vol. 1: 150 p.; v. 2: 140, [2] p. Last page of v. 2 blank.
"W. Cooper (Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington) has lately published, The father and daughter ... "--v. 2, p. [141].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy rebound 2 v. in 1.
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Edgeworth, Maria. The Absentee: a Tale, by Miss Edgeworth, Author of Practical Education, Essay on Irish Bulls, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Parent's Assistant, Moral Tales, &c. In Two Volumes.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17202, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17202. Accessed 2025-11-21. 

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  author={Edgeworth,Maria},
  year={1812},
  title={The Absentee: a Tale, by Miss Edgeworth, Author of Practical Education, Essay on Irish Bulls, Tales of Fashionable Life, The Parent's Assistant, Moral Tales, &c. In Two Volumes.},
  publisher={William Cooper \& },
  address={Washington},    }

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