The power of sympathy / William Hill Brown; reproduced from the 1st ed. With a bibliographical note by Milton Ellis.

The power of sympathy / William Hill Brown; reproduced from the 1st ed. With a bibliographical note by Milton Ellis.

New York : Published for the Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press, 1937.

2 v. : plate ; 17 cm

Facsimile Text Society. Publication, no. 38

Facsim. of the New York Public Library copy.

Original title page reads: The power of sympathy; or, The triumph of Nature, founded in truth. In two volumes ... Printed at Boston, by Isaiah Thomas and Company, sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Newbury Street, and at said Thomas's bookstore in Worcester, 1789.

First published anonymously; a subsequent ed., published in 1894, was erroneously ascribed to Sarah Wentworth (Apthorp) Morton. Cf. M. Ellis. "The author of the first American novel" in Amer. lit., v. 4, 1933, p. [359]-868; J. N. Blanck. Bibl. of Amer. lit., v. 1 (1955) p. 310.

At head of title: William Hill Brown.

Publication (Facsimile Text Society) ; no. 38.

United States -- New York (State) -- New York.

PS700.A1 P67 1937