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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
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.
Author
  1. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

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Additional authors
  1. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
  2. Brooks, John
  3. Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859
Description
  1. vi, [2], 183, [1] pages; 18 cm (8vo)
Subject
  1. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851 > Travel > Europe
  2. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822 > Travel > Europe
  3. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
  4. Women authors, English > 19th century > Diaries
  5. Europe > Description and travel
Call number
  1. Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)
Note
  1. 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).
  2. 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).
  3. Printer's imprint: "Reynell, Printer, 45, Broad-street, Golden-square."
  4. Signatures: [A]⁴(±[A]1) B-M⁸ N⁴.
Access (note)
  1. Restricted access;
Indexed in (note)
  1. Wise, T. J. Shelley Library
Author
  1. Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Title
  1. 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
  1. London : Published by J. Brooks, 421 Oxford Street, 1829.
Edition
  1. [First edition, second issue].
Indexed in:
  1. Wise, T. J. Shelley Library, p. 47
Restricted access
  1. Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Local note
  1. 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
  1. Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 1792-1822.
  2. Brooks, John, publisher.
  3. Reynell, Carew Henry, -1859, printer.
  4. Forman, H. Buxton (Harry Buxton), 1842-1917, former owner.
  5. Pforzheimer, Carl H. (Carl Howard), 1879-1957, former owner.
  6. Tasker, Joseph, former owner.
Research call number
  1. Pforz (Shelley, M. History of a six weeks' tour. 1829. 1st ed., 2nd issue. London)
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