The Old English Baron: A Gothic Story. REEVE (Clara).

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From an Ancient Manuscript. By Clara Reeve. Editor of The Phoenix, and Translator of Barclay's Argensis. A New Edition.

Engraved frontispiece.

12mo. [176 x 106 x 10 mm]. 72pp. Later mabled paper wrappers.
London: printed [by Plummer, Seething-Lane] for T. Hughes, Ludgate-Hill, 1806.

Old repair to recto of outer margin of frontispiece, some soiling and minor staining throughout and with an early ink signature at the foot of the title. Not a very attractive copy, but complete and rare, with only one copy on Library Hub, at Oxford. First published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue, a new edition appeared in 1778 under this revised title and in Reeve's own name.

Stock no. ebc8288

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From an Ancient Manuscript. By Clara Reeve. Editor of The Phoenix, and Translator of Barclay's Argensis. A New Edition.

Engraved frontispiece.

12mo. [176 x 106 x 10 mm]. 72pp. Later mabled paper wrappers.
London: printed [by Plummer, Seething-Lane] for T. Hughes, Ludgate-Hill, 1806.

Old repair to recto of outer margin of frontispiece, some soiling and minor staining throughout and with an early ink signature at the foot of the title. Not a very attractive copy, but complete and rare, with only one copy on Library Hub, at Oxford. First published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue, a new edition appeared in 1778 under this revised title and in Reeve's own name.

Stock no. ebc8288

From an Ancient Manuscript. By Clara Reeve. Editor of The Phoenix, and Translator of Barclay's Argensis. A New Edition.

Engraved frontispiece.

12mo. [176 x 106 x 10 mm]. 72pp. Later mabled paper wrappers.
London: printed [by Plummer, Seething-Lane] for T. Hughes, Ludgate-Hill, 1806.

Old repair to recto of outer margin of frontispiece, some soiling and minor staining throughout and with an early ink signature at the foot of the title. Not a very attractive copy, but complete and rare, with only one copy on Library Hub, at Oxford. First published anonymously in 1777 as The Champion of Virtue, a new edition appeared in 1778 under this revised title and in Reeve's own name.

Stock no. ebc8288