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Manuscript on Paper. The Retreat, a Sentimental Fragment Interspersed with Dialogues.
Britain, 1817.
Quarto format manuscript on laid paper with 1815 watermarks, title page very neatly done in a calligraghic hand incorporating several lettering styles, 328 numbered pages; each leaf lined, written in a neat italic hand brown ink, very faint inscription to title page that may be the author's name, approximately twenty-four lines per page, in later half calf, marbled paper boards, some toning, offsetting to contents, some signatures sprung, 9 x 7 1/4 in.
The author, who only identifies himself with the initials N.P., has composed this work because, "a father's best legacy to his children are lessons demonstrative of piety." We may also infer that our writer had a connection to the sea as several of his dialogues are nautical in nature, and to that end he offers five pages in which he defines "Sea Terms," after the last numbered page 328.
