The progress of romance
and The history of Charoba, queen of Aegypt,
reproduced from the Colchester edition of 1785, with a bibliographical note by Esther M. McGill.

Description

Main Author

Reeve, Clara, 1729-1807.

Related Names

McGill, Esther Mohr.
Murtaḍā ibn al-ʻAfīf, 1154 or 5-1237.

Language(s)

English

Published

New York, The Facsimile text society, 1930.

Subjects

Fiction > Fiction / History and criticism.

Note

"The history of Charoba" is an adaptation of a story in "The Egyptian history ... written ... in the Arabian tongue by Murtadi ... rendered into French by Mons. Vattier ... and thence faithfully done into English by J. Davies, 1672."
With reproduction of original t.p.: The progress of romance, through times, countries and manners: with remarks on the good and bad effects of it, on them respectively; in a course of evening conversations. By C. R., author of The English baron, The two mentors &c. In two volumes ... Colchester, Printed for the athor, by W. Keymer : London, G. G. J. and J. Robinson, MDCCLXXXV.
"Reprinted from the copy of the Colchester edition now in the Library of Congress."

Physical Description

2 v. in 1 19 cm.

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