| Item Description: | BAL, 929. - English Short Title Catalog, W5413. - Evans, 24086. - Historical allegory dealing with the American Revolution and contemporary relations with England and France. Attributed to Belknap in the Dictionary of American biography. - Printers' monogram device on title page. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Sabin, 4433. - Signed on p.211: Amyntor, i.e. Jeremy Belknap. - Two states of the frontispiece noted in BAL. In the first (BAL 1), which is unsigned, the block in the lower left corner reads "£ 150,000000." In the second (BAL 2), signed "Seymour de. sc.", the block in the lower corner reads"£ 200 millions." - Two states of gathering G noted in BAL. In one, the footnote ("Pennsylvania") appears without an asterisk and has a space between the third and fourth letters. In the other, the space is closed and an asterisk precedes the footnote. - Wright, L.H. Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 289 |
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