Narcisse, ou Le château d'Arabit : orné de trois jolies gravures /
Castéra, Désirée de
De Willinger, Jenny,former owner.StEdNL
Paris : Dentu, Imprimeur-Libraire, Palais du Tribunal, galeries de bois, n.⁰ 240,
An XII.-1804.
The story of a beautiful young lady, 'Miss Narcisse', who is eighteen when the novel opens and who has lived since the age of five in a convent in the Scottish Highlands, entirely ignorant of her identity or the circumstances of her birth. She is collected by Miss Vincent and taken further north in Scotland to meet her guardian, Lady Dorbay, where she is to learn the secret of her birth and start on her new life.
L'auteur d'Armand et Angéla, i.e. Désirée de Castéra.
Each volume is preceded by a half-title.
Integral publisher's ads, verso of half-title of v. 1, and the last three pages at the end of v. 3.
The story of a beautiful young lady, 'Miss Narcisse', who is eighteen when the novel opens and who has lived since the age of five in a convent in the Scottish Highlands, entirely ignorant of her identity or the circumstances of her birth. She is collected by Miss Vincent and taken further north in Scotland to meet her guardian, Lady Dorbay, where she is to learn the secret of her birth and start on her new life.
Manuscript inscription of "Jenny de Willinger" on the verso of the front free endpaper.
France Paris.