| Item Description: | "G. Keatinge was probably the publisher only, while the very neat print (in Roman type) was the work of Samuel Saur."--Seidensticker, p. 142. Seidensticker's assertion notwithstanding, the edition may have been printed in Germany. - Dedicated to George Washington. - English Short Title Catalog, W18561. - Error in paging: p. 121 misnumbered 112. - Evans, 29989. - Reproduction of original from Boston Public Library. - The volume, announced as the first of a series devoted to the works of German authors, contains Salomon Gessner's Der Tod Abels, Daphnis, and Die Nacht. No more published. - Title page engraved, and conjugate with the engraved frontispiece depicting Gessner and signed: F. Bolt sc. Berlin 1796 |
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