Author: COTTIN (Sophie Ristaud):
Title: Elisabeth, ou Les Exilés de Sibérie. Nouvelle Edition, Augmentee de Notes Historiques et Géographiques. Par C. Gros. Avec un Frontispice [sic].
Description: A Londres: Chez G. et W. B. Whittaker..., 1824. 12mo, 158 x 94 mms., pp. v [vi blank], 196, 8 (adverts), engraved frontispiece, by Springsguth after Corbould, contemporary plain green calf, bordered in blind on covers, spine gilt in compartments, red leather label; front board slightly sprung with consequent cracking of upper and lower front joint, but a good copy with a presentation inscription mounted on verso of front free end-paper: "2e Class/ 1eme Division./ Prix remporté par/ Madelle Sarah Shipson./ Brimingham le 9 Juine 1830./ [illegible]." Elisabeth was first published in 1806 in Paris, just before Cottin's death in 1807. The first British imprint of a French edition was by Longman in 1808. Whittaker published his French edition in 1818. Copac locates copies of this 1824 edition in TCD, Bodleian, LSE, National Library of Wales.

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