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Sketches of Life and Manners, with Delineation of Scenery in England, Scotland, and Ireland

Published 1810
Author Grant, Mary Ann
Title Sketches of Life and Manners, with Delineation of Scenery in England, Scotland, and Ireland: Interspersed with Moral Tales and Anecdotes, in Original Letters: in Two Volumes. By Mrs. Mary Ann Grant.
Publisher’s imprint London: Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street, Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields, for the Author, and Sold by E. Williams, Bookseller to the Duke and Duchess of York, No. 11, Strand; and by All Other Booksellers in the United Kingdom. 1810.
Printer’s colophon Printed by Cox, Son, and Baylis, Great Queen Street, London.
Format 12o; 2 vols: pp. [5]-23. 264(I), 343(II)
Sources lst Google; NSTC G1735; OCLC 10043790
Copy inspected BL C.192.a.210
Notes

  1. T.p. epigraph: [––I love to meditate upon the book / Of Nature ever open––aiming thence, / Warm from the heart, to learn a moral lesson.]; adapted from James Thomson, The Seasons (1730), 'Autumn', ll. 662-64.

  2. Dedicated 'To Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales' [Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales (1796-1817; ODNB)].

  3. Contains list of subscribers in volume 1.

  4. Editions: 1811(2nd).
Genre Narrative letters
BTW record no. BTW1073
Regions England, Ireland, Scotland

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