Tales of the castle: or Stories of instruction and delight. Being Les veillées du château, written in French by Madame la comtesse de Genlis, author of The theatre of education, Adela and Theodore, &c. Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Ninth edition. Five volumes in two.

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Title Tales of the castle: or Stories of instruction and delight. Being Les veillées du château, written in French by Madame la comtesse de Genlis, author of The theatre of education, Adela and Theodore, &c. Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Ninth edition. Five volumes in two.
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Signed Author By Madame la comtesse de Genlis, author of The theatre of education, Adela and Theodore, &c.
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Self-published No
Volumes 2
Pagination I 335; II 461
Date of Publication 1813
Edition Statement Ninth edition.
Edition Number 9
Date of First Publication
Imprint Published by William Fessenden.
Colophon
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Location of Printing Brattleboro US
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Length (cm) 18
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Notes Hathi Trust and Google Books carry a digitization of volume two only.
AAS Notes:
Edition statement transposed; precedes verse on title page.
Each of the five volumes has separate title page. Vol. 1-2 bound in physical volume one; v. 3-5 bound in physical volume two. Each of the two physical volumes is paged continuously.
Vol. 1: iv, [1], 6-335, [1] p.; v. 2: 461, [1] p. Last page of each volume blank.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
McCorison, M.A. Vermont imprints, 1778-1820,
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American Antiquarian Society inscribed: Mary Smith, Boston, Mass.
Hand-Verified No
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du Crest de Saint-Aubin, Stéphanie Félicité. Tales of the castle: or Stories of instruction and delight. Being Les veillées du château, written in French by Madame la comtesse de Genlis, author of The theatre of education, Adela and Theodore, &c. Translated into English by Thomas Holcroft. Ninth edition. Five volumes in two.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17582, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17582. Accessed 2025-10-26. 

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  publisher={William Fessenden},
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