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Author	Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788.
Title	The death of Abel : in five books / attempted from the German of Mr. Gessner.
Publication Info.	Bath : Printed by S. Hazard ; London : Vernor and Hood, 1798.

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Small	Z-S G3919 D3	IN LIBRARY

Edition	A new edition.
Description	xv, [16]-246 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Note	Small type ornaments, rules.
	Engravings signed by the artist-engraver H. Richter. At foot of 3 plates: Publish'd Decr., 1795 by Vernon & Hood; one plate has Decr. 1, 1795.
	Signatures: [A]-Q⁸R³.
	Translated by Mary Collyer.
Local Note	Library copy rebound, ms. signature above title, dated 1803.
Subject	Gessner, Salomon, 1730-1788 -- Translations into English.
	Cain (Biblical figure) -- In rabbinical literature.
	Cain (Biblical figure) -- In literature.
Genre or Form	Engravings -- England -- London. -- 1795.
	Type ornaments (Type evidence) -- England -- London -- 1798.
Added Author	Collyer, Mary, d. 1763.
	Richter, Henry, 1772-1857, artist, engraver.
	Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806, printer.
	Vernor and Hood, publisher.
Added Title	Der Tod Abels. English

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