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Paris and the Parisians in 1835

Published 1835
Author Trollope, Frances
Illustrator Hervieu, August Jean Jacques
Title Paris and the Parisians in 1835. By Frances Trollope, Author of “Domestic Manners of the Americans,” “Tremordyn Cliff,” &c. In Two Volumes.
Publisher’s imprint London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, Publisher in Ordinary to His Majesty. 1836.
Printer’s colophon London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Format 8o; 2 vols: pp. xv. 418(I), ix. 412(II); plates
Sources CHLS; NSTC 2T18274; Robinson
Copy inspected Google Oxford
Notes
  1. T.p. epigraph: [“Le pire des états, c’est l’état populaire.” Corneille.]; from Pierre Corneille, Cinna (1641), II.i.521.

  2. The engraved t.p. gives the publication date as 1835; the printed one, 1836. The book most likely first appeared in Dec. 1835.

  3. Editions: Paris 1836, Leipzig 1836, New York 1836; 1836(2nd)

  4. Reviews: The Times (30 Jan. 1836); Fraser’s 13 (Feb. 1836): 209-23; Le Semeur [FR] 5.7 (17 Feb. 1836): 53-55; Tait’s 3 (Mar. 1836): 174-89; [Edgar Allen Poe], Southern Literary Messenger [US] 2.6 (May 1836): 393-6; Amer. Monthly Mag. [US] 2 (July 1836): 101; Athenaeum 427, 428 (1836); La France littéraire 44 (1836): 203; Literary Gazette no. 987 (1836): 5; Monthly Rev. 139 (1836); New Monthly Mag. 46 (1836): 239-40; Revue critique des livres nouveaux [FR] (1836): 30-31; Spectator 9 (1836): 40-41.

  5. Full text links: Google vol. 1 & 2

Genre Narrative letters
BTW record no. BTW1186
Region France

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