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Title

La Roche

Authors

• Mackenzie, Henry, 1745-1831

Call number

Ms. Codex 204
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 1580598
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1580598

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

English

Origin

Date

1779?

Place

Edinburgh

Summary

Copy of Mackenzie's The Story of La Roche (f. 1r-55r). Also includes some verse on Tickell (f. 71r-72r).

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title and author from caption title (f. 1r).
   
• Incipit of introduction (f. 1r): When I first undertook this publication, it was suggested by some of my friends, and indeed, accorded entirely with my own ideas, that there should be nothing of religion in it.
   
• Incipit of text (f. 4r, headed "To the Author of the Mirror"): More than forty years ago, an English philosopher, whose works have since been read and admired by all Europe, resided at a little town in France.
   

Extent

81 leaves : 181 x 115 (152 x 106) mm. bound to 187 x 122 mm

Foliation

Paper, 81; [i, 1-80]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary full calf. Wearing at edges. Inside hinges splitting.

Script

Written in a cursive script, possibly in the hand of Henry Mackenzie.

Provenance

• Acquired, 1942.
   

Subjects topical

• English literature--18th century
• English prose literature--18th century

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, English--18th century
• Manuscripts, European

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