Beauchamp Henry Pseudonym (1 results)
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Published by London: Published by S. Hood, 39, Tottenham-Court-Road; and sold by all other Booksellers, 1813., 1813
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Seller: Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, Essex, CT, U.S.A.Stuart Bennett Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. ii, [ii], 154, [2]pp., 12mo. Engraved frontispiece, with a preliminary leaf of errata and a terminal blank leaf; some browning and mild spotting throughout. Later half morocco, spine gilt-lettered, but clumsily sewn with the first couple of gatherings detaching. First edition, declaredly…(in the preface) a continuation of "that ingenious little work, entitled `the Adventures of a Hackney Coach, published in the year 1781. . . but perfectly distinct from the former work." It is full of dramatic incident, beginning with the narrator s fall from his horse and rescue by the proprietor of an insane asylum. Garside et al., English Novel, 1813:10, locating a single copy at the Bodleian; JISC/COPAC adds one at the Museum of London, and OCLC one more at Queen s University in Canada. An 1815 edition, probably a reissue, is found at the British Library.
