Rasselas; a tale...Dinarbas; a tale: being a continuation of Rasselas

by Cornelia Knight by Johnson, Samuel

$175 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

London: Walker and Edwards, 1817. 24mo, pp. 2 , 266; engraved frontispiece and additional title page; contemporary three-quarter calf over marbled boards, gilt spine; edges and boards rubbed, lacking N2 advertisement leaf; ownership signature on front free endpaper verso dated 1834; texblock fine. Apparently, this is the first time Johnson's text was married to that of Cornelia Knight's in the UK. Suprisingly, the honor of primacy goes to the Greenfield, Mass.

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