• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: The spirit of "The book;" or, Memoirs of Caroline Princess of Hasburgh : a political and amatory romance
  • Contributor: Ashe, Thomas [Author]
  • Published: Philadelphia: Published by Moses Thomas, no. 52, Chesnut Street. B. Graves, printer, 1812
  • Published in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Issue: First American from the third London edition. [Six lines from Times paper, 27 March 1809]
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text); 18 cm
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Caroline Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain 1768-1821 Fiction
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "B. Graves, printer, no. 40, North Fourth-Street, Philadelphia."--colophon, p. 364
    "Index."--p. [365-366]
    "This work ... professes to embrace the matter of the abominable and slanderous volume known by the name of 'The delicate investigation.' ... The editor pledges himself that his work is formed upon the basis of the suppressed book, which was placed for that express purpose in his hands; and he also declares that the original facts and interesting anecdotes with which his pages are illuminated, are ... authentic and incontrovertible. ..."Preface, p. iv-v
    Letters purporting to be from Queen Caroline to Princess Charlotte
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 24637