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Additional authors

1. Apel, August, 1771-1816
2. Borrow, George, 1803-1881
3. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851
4. Moyes, James, -1838
5. Hurst, Robinson, and Co., publisher
6. Archibald Constable & Co., publisher
7. Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.), bookseller

Description

1. x, [2], 356 pages; 20 cm

Genre/Form

1. Novellas.

Contents

1. The prediction. -- The yellow dwarf. -- Der freischütz, from the German of A. Apel. -- The fortunes of De la Pole. -- The lord of the maelstrom. -- Notes to the lord of the maelstrom.

Call number

1. Pforz (Dods, M. D. Tales of the wild and the wonderful)

Language

1. English

Note

1. By Mary Diana Dods, a.k.a. David Lyndsay, etc.; formerly attributed to George Borrow.
2. Printer's imprint: London: printed by J. Moyes, Bouverie Street.
3. Dedication: "To Joanna Baillie . . . ."

Local note

1. Pforzheimer copy 1: With the bookplate of Massachusetts senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and what is possibly his seven-line note in pencil on the front free endpaper; with the bookseller's ticket of Brick Row Book Shop. -- Original drab boards, original printed paper spine label, partially missing.
2. Pforzheimer copy 2: Formerly owned by William Beckford, with his initialed note on the fly leaf: "A delightful party & the one of all others I should have liked best to join -- The marble palace & its Coterie -- would have just suited me. WB" (MISC 4069). With a later armorial leather book label bearing the initials "AR." -- Polished purple calf, much faded, spine gilt.

Author

1. Dods, Mary Diana, 1791?-1829 or 1830.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Connect to:

1. Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection

Added author

1. Apel, August, 1771-1816. Freischütz.
2. Borrow, George, 1803-1881, attributed name.
3. Baillie, Joanna, 1762-1851, dedicatee.
4. Moyes, James, -1838, printer.
5. Hurst, Robinson, and Co., publisher.
6. Archibald Constable & Co., publisher.
7. Lodge, Henry Cabot, 1850-1924, former owner.
8. Beckford, William, 1760-1844, former owner.
9. Beckford, William, 1760-1844, annotator.
10. Brick Row Book Shop (New York, N.Y.), bookseller.

LCCN

1. 07003670