Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788
Title:
The death of Abel, in five books; attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner.
Alternate Title(s):
Der Tod Abels. English
Published / Created:
London, T. Heptinstall, 1797.
Physical Description:
1 p.., xi, 275 p. front. (port.) plates. 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PT1886 T613 1797

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BAC : "Printed by C. Whittingham."

BAC : Tail pieces.

BAC : Plates by Blackberd, after Stothard.

BEIR WC 13940: Poor condition. Armorial bookplate of Henry Newall Littleborough.

Contains also "New idyls, by S. Gessner, with A letter to M. Fuslin, on landscape painting; and The two friends of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot" (p. [151]-275) with separate half title.

Translation of: Der Tod Abels.

The first work was translated by Mary Collyer; the second by W. Hooper, according to the British Museum Catalogue.

MUDD WC 13940: Poor condition.
Subject Terms:
Cain (Biblical figure) -- Fiction. | Landscape painting. | Littleborough, Henry Newall -- Bookplate.
Contributors:
Collyer, Mary, d. 1763.