2 volumes in 1, continuously paginated. [i]-iv, [5]-142 pp. (12mo) 15x9 cm (6x3½") leather-backed boards. Early American edition of the British-American novelist's most famous work, sometimes published as Charlotte Temple. The book went through some 200 printings, and was the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially in 1851-1852. Includes an ownership inscription dated 1802 which ends with a poem against loss or theft: "If this Book you chance / To Borrow and it should / get lost it would fill / My heart with Sorrow / And you must pay the cost".
2 volumes in 1, continuously paginated. [i]-iv, [5]-142 pp. (12mo) 15x9 cm (6x3½") leather-backed boards. Early American edition of the British-American novelist's most famous work, sometimes published as Charlotte Temple. The book went through some 200 printings, and was the most popular best-seller in American literature until Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin was published serially in 1851-1852. Includes an ownership inscription dated 1802 which ends with a poem against loss or theft: "If this Book you chance / To Borrow and it should / get lost it would fill / My heart with Sorrow / And you must pay the cost".
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