Clarissa Dormer, or, The advantages of good instruction.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1808 (London : H. Bryer, Printer, Bridge-Street Blackfriars)
Description
36 p., [3] leaves of plates : col. ill. (engravings) ; 12 cm.

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Subject(s)
Publisher
Harris, J. (John), -1856 [Browse]
Printer
Bryer, Henry [Browse]
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Contained in
Summary note
A white governess comes from England to instruct the Creole child, Clarissa, whose stupid and cruel mother later dies in slave rebellion.
Notes
  • Frontispiece dated Oct. 24, 1808.
  • Cotsen c. 1: Inscribed on recto of frontispiece: Hadleigh 24th December 1813 to Hibernia Duken given by her dear papa.
  • Cotsen c. 2: No. 4 of 4 Harris volumes bound together in later red leather and marbled bds. with spine title "Stories."
  • Cotsen c. 2: Bound volume signed by four former owners: Julia Ladbrooke, William Cotton Salisbury, I. Salisbury, and Sarah Salisbury; bookplate of Marjorie Moon.
Binding note
Cotsen c. 1: Pub. buff wrappers with publisher's advertisement on rear.
References
  • Moon, M. Harris (1992), 138
  • Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 207.1
Other title(s)
Advantages of good instruction
In
Cotsen c.2: Multi-title collection including Jemima Claverton, or, The slanderer punished and 3 other(s).
OCLC
29594118
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