For
your consideration:
For
your consideration:
“Oriental”
Romance for
CT
Subscribers
Langhorne, John. Solyman and Almena: an Oriental tale. East Windsor, Conn.: Pr. by Luther Pratt, 1799. 12mo. 168 pp.
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Something
for everyone, or, 
Provenance:
Bookplate of Thomas Longley (Hawley).
We find seven copies reported in libraries, ALL between Worcester/Providence and Washington, D.C.
• Evans 35710; Trumbull, Connecticut, 2313; ESTC W3365. Old calf
with remnants of black leather spine label; leather with one gouge to back
cover and a bit abraded overall. Tear and chip to front free endpaper; title-page
with tiny edge tears. Small wormhole at base of initial three leaves, not
touching print. Some leaves extruded with shallow tattering. Bookplate as
above on front free endpaper. Offsetting from leather of cover and a brown
blot or stain at outer margin of title- and following page; same offsetting
to last leaves; some general staining and an ink "x-mark" in margin of one
other page. 
This
seems to have been read with enthusiasm!
(20994)
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