The power of sympathy: or, The triumph of nature. [microform] : Founded in truth. : In two volumes. Vol I[-II]. : [Four lines of verse]

Title:

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[microform] :

Personal Author:

Brown, William Hill, 1765-1793.

Publication Information:

Printed at Boston, : by Isaiah Thomas and Company. Sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Newbury Street. And at said Thomas's bookstore in Worcester., MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]

Physical Description:

2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21979.

General Note:

Fictional acount of Frances Theodora Apthorp, sister of Sarah Wentworth Morton, to whom the work has often been attributed. William Hill Brown is generally accepted as the author. Cf. Ellis, Milton. "The author of the first American novel." American Literature 4 (1933): 359-368.

Signatures: v. 1, A-L⁶ M⁴ (M4 blank); v. 2, pi² N-U⁶ W⁶ X-Z⁶ &⁶ (&6 blank).

The frontispiece, engraved by Samuel Hill, is the only illustration.

Vol. 1: vi, [1], 8-138, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 158, [2] p.

Personal Subject:

Apthorpe, Frances Theodora, 1766-1788.

Genre:

Novels.

Added Author:

Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846.

Hill, Samuel, approximately 1766-1804.

Citation Reference Notes:

Evans 21979

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