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Leonora : a tale: PB 16-2019

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Leonora : a tale

Maker(s)

Author: Bürger, Gottfried Augustus
Translator: Stanley, John Thomas, 1st Lord of Alderley
Illustrator: Perry, Joseph
Miller, William (publisher)
Printer: Gosnell, S.

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Description

Translated and altered from the German of Gottfried Augustus Bürger by J.T. Stanley

New edition
London : Printed by S. Gosnell, for William Miller, Old Bond Street, 1796.
English version followed by German original with separate title page: Lenore: ein Gedicht/ von G.A. Bürger. London: gedrucht [sic] bey S. Gosnell, 1796.
Letterpress, an illustrated frontispiece and 2 vignettes engraved by Joseph Perry (active 1790s) after William Blake.

[5]p, 111 leaves of text, 111 [i.e. 139] leaves of plates : ill. ; 31 cm

Place(s) associated

  • London

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Unknown (2019)

Dating

Production date: AD 1796

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing
Engraving

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 16-2019
Primary reference Number: 98392
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 5 December 2019 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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