Research Catalog

Title

Mary : a fiction.

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Publication

London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXXVIII, [1788].

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809

Description

[8], 187, [1] pages; 18 cm (8vo)

Subject

• Feminism > Fiction

Note

• Signatures: []² A² B-M⁸ N⁶.
• Anonymous. By Mary Wollstonecraft.
• According to Windle, "Page 178 in all copies checked bears a brief manuscript correction once thought to be but almost certainly not in the hand of the author" (page 3).

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• English short title catalogue
• Windle, J. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: A Bibliography

Call Number

Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Mary. 1788. 1st ed. London)

OCLC

34407240

Author

Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.

Title

Mary : a fiction.

Publisher

London : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church-Yard, MDCCLXXXVIII, [1788].

Edition

[First edition].

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T39008

Windle, J. Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin: A Bibliography, A2a

Local Note

In all four NYPL copies the word "returned" on page 178 is crossed out and replaced by "relumed" in an unidentified contemporary hand.

Pforzheimer copy 1: Contemporary tree calf, spine tooled in gilt with decorations, green morocco spine label with title "MARY / A FICTION" stamped in gilt, cover edges tooled in gilt, edges sprinkled blue. -- Pencil ownership signature of "W. A. White" to front flyleaf. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through A. S. W. Rosenbach, December 1931.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Original blue-gray wrappers, leaves untrimmed; housed in a white envelope. -- Armorial bookplate of [?] Edward Oates engraved by Griffiths & Weigall, 3 St. James St. (H.W. Fincham, page 38) pasted to inside of front wrapper; Armorial bookplate of Robert Washington Oates pasted to half-title verso. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through William Robinson Ltd., December 1952.

Pforzheimer copy 3: Original blue-gray wrappers, leaves untrimmed; housed in a wraparound folder which imitates a book, manuscript spine title. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer through Scribner’s, February 8, 1952.

Berg Coll Godwin, M. 1788 c. 1: Contemporary tree calf, spine tooled in gilt with wavy rules, red morocco spine label with title "MARY" stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers; housed in an archival enclosure. -- The "r" in the annotation "relumed" on page 178 has been trimmed in binding. -- Ink ownership signature of E. Bartlett, dated March 1840 to front flyleaf. -- From the library of Owen D. Young.

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Added Author

Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809, publisher.

Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.

Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, bookseller.

White, William Augustus, 1843-1927, former owner.

Young, Owen D., 1874-1962, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Mary. 1788. 1st ed. London)