BURNEY, Sarah Harriet. Traits of Nature, London: for Henry Colburn, 1812, 5 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, half titles, one leaf advertisement at end of vol. I (quire B of vol. I pulled, several leaves torn, some with slight loss), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed gilt spines, armorial bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. [Block p. 30; Summers pp. 27, 536] (5)

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BURNEY, Sarah Harriet. Traits of Nature, London: for Henry Colburn, 1812, 5 volumes, 12°, FIRST EDITION, half titles, one leaf advertisement at end of vol. I (quire B of vol. I pulled, several leaves torn, some with slight loss), contemporary half calf over red marbled boards, flat-backed gilt spines, armorial bookplate of Thomas Hammond Foxcroft. [Block p. 30; Summers pp. 27, 536] (5)

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This novel sold so well that a second edition was printed three months after the first and a third in 1813; it was also published in Philadelphia, and in Paris as Le Jeune Cleveland, ou Traits de Nature.

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