The Sentimental Connoisseur, or, the Pleasing and Entertaining Novelist

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Traditional bibliographic descriptions effectively represent the materiality of the novel (e.g. placement of ornamentations, pagination, format). However, traditional bibliographic descriptions do not consider spatialization. As such, there are not spatial associations between the bibliographic information and the novel’s material and thematic properties. Unlike bibliographic entries, maps function as visual representations of imagined boundaries, symbols, distance, and topography. This non-traditional bibliographic description seeks to survey the “landscape” of the novel, The Sentimental Connoisseur.

Traditional Description

THE SENTIMENTAL CONNOISSEUR: OR, PLEASING AND ENTERTAINING NOVELIST. BEING AN ELEGANT AND NEW ASSEMBLAGE OF LIVELY EFFUSIONS OF FANCY, POLITE TALES, DIVERTING ESSAYS, DROLL ADVENTURES, PLEASING STORIES, ENTERTAINING NOVELS, COMIC CHARACTERS, FACCITIOUS HISTORIES, AFFECTING EXAMPLES, STRIKING REMARKS, POINTED SATIRES, &c. &c. Entirely calculated to form in the mind the most virtuous Sentiments: AND Adapted to promote a love of Virtue and an abhorrence of Vice.
London: R. Newton, J. Murdell, M. Cooper, and D. Midwinter, MDCCLXXVIII. [1778].
192p. 12mo.
BL 12316.cc.13; EM 7482: 3; ESTC t128586
Contents: A1r title, A1v blank, A2r preface, A2v text, A3v-rv text, A4r half title....
Notes: Frontispiece. Preface pp 3-6

Bibliographer: Tania Doles