Research Catalog

Title

The peripatetic; or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society : in a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus / supposed to be written by himself.

Author

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.

Publication

[London] Printed for the author, and sold by him, No. 2, Maze Pond, Southwark, M,DCC,XCIII [1793].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814
• Reece, Samuel, active 1793-1794

Description

3 volumes; 19 cm

Summary

An interweaving of Romantic-era genres (sentimental tales, pastoral poetry, gothic romances, political satire) in exploration of social and political concerns of the period.

Subject

• Great Britain > Politics and government
• Great Britain > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• Fiction.
• Poetry.
• Anecdotes.
• Political fiction.

Note

• Pagination: volume 1: x, 224 pages; volume 2: [2], 228 pages; 228 pages.
• Signatures: volume 1: A⁶ B-E¹² F-Q⁶; volume 2: [A]² B-K¹² L⁶; volume 3: A-I¹² K⁶.
• "Entered at Stationers-Hall."
• "Sylvanus Theophrastus" is a pseudonym; by John Thelwall.
• Above imprint from volume 1; imprint of volumes 2-3 omit author's address and add the booksellers Eaton (Bishopsgate-street) and Reece (Carthusian-street, Charterhouse-square).
• With half-titles.
• Publisher's advertisements: volume 1, page [ii].

Indexed In (note)

• English short title catalogue

Call Number

Pforz (Thelwall, J. Peripatetic)

LCCN

08028172

OCLC

23622744

Author

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834.

Title

The peripatetic; or, Sketches of the heart, of nature and society : in a series of politico-sentimental journals, in verse and prose, of the eccentric excursions of Sylvanus Theophrastus / supposed to be written by himself.

Publisher

[London] Printed for the author, and sold by him, No. 2, Maze Pond, Southwark, M,DCC,XCIII [1793].

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T116852

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: With the "Robert Southey Collection" bookplates of the American professor and literary scholar Raymond Dexter Havens, and his ownership signatures dated November, 1933. Havens's 1933 invoice from the Leeds bookseller James Miles laid in volume 1; along with small (37 mm) circular piece of paper signed "Dorothy Smith" and "Nora Smith" in juvenile hands, with doodles, an unidentified bibliographical reference on the verso, in an adult's hand. -- In original blue boards, original decorative printed spines; three volumes within one brown linen case, gilt spine titling and rules.

Place of Publication

England London

Added Author

Thelwall, John, 1764-1834, publisher.

Eaton, Daniel Isaac, -1814, publisher.

Reece, Samuel, active 1793-1794, publisher.

Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-1954, former owner

Havens, Raymond Dexter, 1880-1954, signer

Research Call Number

Pforz (Thelwall, J. Peripatetic)