Shelfmark
En.5.45
Author
Title
Ode to Her Imperial Majesty Catherine the Great, presented by the Chief National School at St. Petersburgh on the day of her most gracious visit, January the 21st, 1785; printed at St. Petersburgh, in the free Typography of B. Th. Breytkopft.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London, Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1815.
Physical description
27, [1] p. 1 plate 8vo (20 cm).
Note
Translated by Stephen Weston (dedication signed 'S. Weston').
Note
Etched frontispiece by Parsons of the Bronze Horseman.
Provenance
Inscribed 'Baron Wolff from ye Author' (i.e. the translator) on the front free endpaper.
Binding
Early 19th century red glazed paper wrappers; all edges gilt; 20th century reback.
Copy-specific note
Ms. note on front free endpaper, dated July 1818: 'The revd Stephen Weston who translated it from the Russian without not[?] having studied that language merely by dint of a Dictionary'.
Subject
Catherine, 1729 - 1796 II, Empress of Russia, Poetry.
Added entry--name
Weston, Stephen, 1747 - 1830 translator.
Added entry--name
Catherine, 1729 - 1796 II, Empress of Russia,
Language code
engrus
Identifier
B44219