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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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 36886 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 033 Browse related items Reading Room Request
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    Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 26219 Eng 18 / Harris Browse related items Reading Room Request
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    • Princeton copy 2: Clarissa Dormer, or, The advantages of good instruction

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      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
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      Advantages of good instruction
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      Cotsen c.2: Multi-title collection including Jemima Claverton, or, The slanderer punished and 3 other(s).
      OCLC
      29594118
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