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History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland : with letters descriptive of a sail around the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni

Title
History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland : with letters descriptive of a sail around the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni / by Percy B. Shelley.
Author
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Publication
London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.

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Additional Authors
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
  • Brooks, John
  • Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859
Description
vi, [2], 183, [1] pages; 18 cm (8vo)
Subject
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Travel > Europe
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Travel > Europe
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
  • Women authors, English > 19th century > Diaries
  • Europe > Description and travel
Note
  • A reissue of the unsold sheets of the first issue of 1817 with a new title-page attributing authorship to Percy Bysshe Shelley (cf. Wise).
  • Consists of a journal (pages 1-81) and two letters by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and two letters and a poem, "Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni," by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cf. Ingpen, R., The letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1909, volume 2, pages 576-577).
  • Printer's imprint: "Reynell, Printer, 45, Broad-street, Golden-square."
  • Signatures: [A]⁴(±[A]1) B-M⁸ N⁴.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Indexed In (note)
  • Wise, T. J. Shelley Library
Call Number
Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)
OCLC
  • 2803815
  • NYPG02-B2699
Author
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Title
History of a six weeks' tour through a part of France, Switzerland, Germany, and Holland : with letters descriptive of a sail around the Lake of Geneva, and of the glaciers of Chamouni / by Percy B. Shelley.
Publisher
London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.
Edition
[First edition, second issue].
Indexed In:
Wise, T. J. Shelley Library, p. 47
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Local Note
Pforzheimer copy: Original buff paper boards, tan paper spine, printed paper spine label reads: "SIX WEEKS' / TOUR. / BY / P. B. SHELLEY. / 5s."; housed in an archival box. -- Armorial bookplate of Joseph Tasker, Middleton Hall, Essex to front pastedown; bookplate of H. Buxton Forman to front free endpaper. -- Acquired by Carl H. Pforzheimer at part two of the Buxton Forman sale, Anderson galleries, April 1920, lot 937.
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Added Author
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
Brooks, John, publisher.
Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859, printer.
Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.
Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.
Tasker, Joseph, former owner.
Research Call Number
Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)
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