Author: NOVEL. [SAINT PIERRE (Jacques-Henri-Bernardin de)]
Title: [The] Indian Cottage, or a Search After Truth. By M. Saint-Pierre, Author of the Voyage to the Isle of France, The Studies of Nature, Shipwreck, or Paul and Mary, &c.
Description: London: Printed for W. Lane, at the Minerva, Leadenhall-Street, 1791. First edition, small 8vo, xxxvi, 87, [1, blank]pp., with half-title, previous owners name cut away from head of title removing the first title word "The", cont. calf, rubbed, head and foot of spine chipped, joints cracked, upper cover holding by cords, title label chipped. Translated by Edward Augustus Kendall from the French edition 'La chaumière indienne', Paris, 1791. This is one of two London editions and one Dublin edition published in 1791. Blakey, p.154; Garside & Schwöerling, 1791:64; ESTC locates just 2 copies (Harvard and University of Chicago).

Keywords: NOVEL ANTIQUARIAN FICTION