Book - The Scottish Chiefs
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs, a Romance, Five Volumes in Three by Miss Jane Porter. Vol. 2. Hartford Published by Silas Andrus 1828.
Porter, Jane. The Scottish Chiefs, a Romance, Five Volumes in Three by Miss Jane Porter. Vol. 2. Hartford Published by Silas Andrus 1828.
12mo (140 x 95mm), pp. 238, with engraved frontispiece and title-page. Bound in contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind. Early pencil inscription to front free endpaper ("Joseph W.C. Norfolk"?).
Vol. 2 only of a later Hartford edition of Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, which was seminal to the development of the historical novel. Porter wrote several such novels, and is slowly being rediscovered by literary scholars today and appreciated for her contributions. The present edition draws on the early 19th-century trend of publishing "triple-decker" novels, i.e., breaking one story into three parts to bolster sales. This edition has a particularly handsome engraved title-page, as well as a dramatic frontispiece. Gothic novel fans surely would have flocked to this Silas Andrus edition of The Scottish Chiefs.
This copy was, at least for a time, in the home of Deacon Jonathan Trumbull Lee (1803-1887) of 534 Boston Post Road in Madison. We have been unable to identify the individual who signed the front free endpaper. More information can be found about Deacon Jonathan Trumbull Lee on the Madison Historical Society's website.
12mo (140 x 95mm), pp. 238, with engraved frontispiece and title-page. Bound in contemporary calf stamped in gilt and blind. Early pencil inscription to front free endpaper ("Joseph W.C. Norfolk"?).
Vol. 2 only of a later Hartford edition of Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, which was seminal to the development of the historical novel. Porter wrote several such novels, and is slowly being rediscovered by literary scholars today and appreciated for her contributions. The present edition draws on the early 19th-century trend of publishing "triple-decker" novels, i.e., breaking one story into three parts to bolster sales. This edition has a particularly handsome engraved title-page, as well as a dramatic frontispiece. Gothic novel fans surely would have flocked to this Silas Andrus edition of The Scottish Chiefs.
This copy was, at least for a time, in the home of Deacon Jonathan Trumbull Lee (1803-1887) of 534 Boston Post Road in Madison. We have been unable to identify the individual who signed the front free endpaper. More information can be found about Deacon Jonathan Trumbull Lee on the Madison Historical Society's website.
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