12mo. In two volumes. [3], vi-viii, 264; 259pp, [1]. Without half-title. With an engraved frontispiece (each engraved after works by Angelica Kauffman) to each volume. Contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf. Without lettering-pieces. Rubbed, joints split, spines dulled. Short tear and slight loss to leading edge of leaf E10 of Vol. I. Armorial bookplates of George Jacob Bosanquet to both FEPs, ticket of bookseller T. Hookham of New Bond Street to FEP of Vol. I.

English novelist, actor and poet Samuel Jackson Pratt's (1749-1814) most commercially successful prose work, Emma Corbett - an epistolary British society novel set around Philadelphia in the Royal Winter of 1777, is widely considered the first English novel of the American Revolution. First published in 1780 with the subtitle 'or, the miseries of civil war. Founded on some recent circumstances which happened in America', by 1789 nine English editions and six further American editions were issued; it was quickly translated into French and German, with editions in both languages appearing by 1783.

This copy bears the bookplate of George Jacob Bosanquet (1791-1866), English diplomat, son of East India Company director Jacob Bosanquet.

Of this ninth English edition ESTC locates copies at just six locations worldwide (Alberta, Arizona, BL, Illinois, NYPL and Virginia).