The Scottish chiefs, a romance. In five volumes. By Miss Jane Porter, author of Thaddeus of Warsaw, and Remarks on Sidney's Aphorisms.

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Main Collection pre-1900  [ Browse Items ]
Publication Year
1810 
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(GEN) Accession no. 589: with a signed autograph letter from Jane Porter to Mrs. Wallace enclosed, declining a dinner invitation, and calling Mrs. Waller's attention to 'one of my new publisher's Papers, about his republication of my Thaddeus.' The letter dates from 1845, the date 2 July being a Wednesday and from other internal evidence. For conservation reasons this has been removed and catalogued separately, under the same Accession no, with Call No. MAN POR.||(CON) Vol I; a6, B-Q12, R2, Contents. a1r Half-title, verso blank; a2r Title, a2v Imprint of J. McCreery; a3r-a6r Preface, a6v blank; B1r-Q11r Text, Q11v blank; Q12r-R1v Notes; R2r Errata to Volumes I-III, R2v blank.Vol II; [A]2, B-Q12, R4, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; [A]2r Title, [A]2v Imprint of J. McCreery; B1r-Q12v Text; R1r-R4r Notes, R4v blank.Vol III; [A]2, B-S12, T2, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; [A]2r Title, [A]2v Imprint of J. McCreery; B1r-S11r Text, S11v blank; S12r-T2r Notes, T2v blank.Vol IV; [A]2, B-R12, S1, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; [A]2r Title, [A]2v Imprint of J. McCreery; B1r-R11r Text, R11v blank; R12r-S1v Notes.Vol V; [A]2, B-R12, S6, Contents. [A]1r Half-title, verso blank; [A]2r Title, [A]2v Imprint of J. McCreery; B1r-S3v Text; S4r-S6v Notes.||(REF) Block, p. 188; Summers, A Gothic Bibliography, p. 497; Wolff 5607; Garside, Raven, and Schowerling, 1810:68; Seventeen copies in NUC||(PRV) Accession no. 589: with a very faint contemporary ink signature, 'Mary Strode[?]' across each title page.||(PHY) Accession no. 589: bound in original calf-backed boards, gilt lettering. 
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