Research Catalog

Title

Popular tales / by Maria Edgeworth, author of Belinda, Castle Rackrent, &c. &c. ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III] ...

Author

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.

Publication

London : Printed for J. Johnson and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, 1811.

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Details

Additional Authors

• J. Johnson and Co. (London, England), publisher.
• Byworth and Ballintine, printer.

Description

3 v.; 19 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Alternative Title

Grateful Negro.

Subject

• Conduct of life > Juvenile literature
• Work ethic > Juvenile literature
• Diligence > Juvenile literature
• Contentment > Juvenile literature

Genre/Form

• Ink stamps (Provenance)
• Inscriptions (Provenance)
• Release stamps (Provenance)
• Withdrawn copies (Provenance)

Note

• Preface signed: Richard Lovell Edgeworth.
• "Byworth and Ballintine, Adelphi, London."--printer statement, verso of title pages, and also on colophons, in all volumes.
• Vol. 1. v, [1], 330 p.; v. 2. [2], 330 p.; v. 3: [2], 347, [1] p.
• "In 'The Grateful Negro,' Edgeworth envisions slavery made palatable: she imagines it reformed in the image of wage labor. The key to her reform is bringing slaves to accept their condition voluntarily, to see it as in their interests, and to accept it much as a free laborer theoretically accepts a contract ..."--cf. Boulukos, George E., "Maria Edgeworth's 'Grateful Negro' and the sentimental argument for slavery" in: Eighteenth-century life, v. 23, no. 1 (1999 Feb.).

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "R. Anderson. Craigleith." ; With ink stamp on title page "Sold by the Brooklyn Public Library." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

v. 1. Lame Jervas ; The will ; Limerick gloves ; Out of debt, out of danger -- v. 2. The lottery ; Rosanna ; Murad the unlucky ; The manufacturers -- v. 3. The contrast ; The grateful Negro ; Tomorrow.

Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-E (Edgeworth, M. Popular tales)

OCLC

• 7236563
• NYPGR7236563-B

Author

Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.

Title

Popular tales / by Maria Edgeworth, author of Belinda, Castle Rackrent, &c. &c. ; in three volumes ; vol. I[-III] ...

Imprint

London : Printed for J. Johnson and Co., St. Paul's Churchyard, 1811.

Edition

Fourth edition.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-E (accession no. B628588) inscribed: in ink on title page "R. Anderson. Craigleith." ; With ink stamp on title page "Sold by the Brooklyn Public Library." ; With the ink stamp: "Schomburg Collection." This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare Fic-E has vol. 3 only. NN

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Added Author

J. Johnson and Co. (London, England), publisher.

Byworth and Ballintine, printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Brooklyn Public Library, former owner.

Added Title

Grateful Negro.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare Fic-E (Edgeworth, M. Popular tales) Library has vol. 3 only.