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The death of Abel : in five books

Authors:Salomon Gessner, Mary Collyer, W. Hooper, Denis Diderot

Print Book, English, 1797

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Publisher: T. Heptinstall, London, 1797

Genre:Fiction

Physical Description:xi, 275 pages, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1008297629

Subjects:

Abel (Biblical figure)

Abel (Biblical figure) Fiction

Cain (Biblical figure)

Cain (Biblical figure) Fiction

Landscape painting

Peinture de paysages

Notes:

Engr. plates by Blackberd after Stothard. incl. title page

The first work was translated by Mary Collyer; the second by W. Hooper, according to the British Museum Catalogue

Translation of: Der Tod Abels

Translation of: Deux amis de Bourbonne

Contains also: "New idyls, by S. Gessner": pages [151]-232; "Letter from Mons. Gessner to Mons. Fuslin, author of The history of the Swiss painters, on Landscape painting": pages [233]-254; and "The two friends of Bourbon, a moral tale, by M. Diderot": p. [255]-275; with combined half-title and table of contents, and special half-titles