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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Volumes 2
Pagination I 335; II 461
Date of Publication 1814
Edition Statement Ninth edition.
Edition Number 9
Date of First Publication
Imprint Published by W. Fessenden, Brattleborough, and M. Carey, Philadelphia.
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Location of Printing Brattleboro US
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Length (cm) 18
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Notes 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.
A reissue of the 1813 edition (Shaw 286111) with new title pages to v. 1 and 3, adding Carey's name and giving 1814 as publication date. Volumes 2, 4 and 5 retain the original 1813 imprint. The title page to v. 3 gives volume number as "Vol. II." McCorison notes that 200 copies were shipped "on exchange" to Mathew Carey at Philadelphia.
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 copy the gift of Florence Harrington, 1939. Inscribed: Addie Rockwood.
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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 17583, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17583. Accessed 2024-11-02. 

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  year={1814},
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  publisher={William Fessenden \& Mathew Carey [121 Chesnut Street]},
  address={Brattleboro},    }

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