The power of sympathy: or, The triumph of nature.
Subtitle: Founded in truth. : In two volumes. Vol I[-II]. : [Four lines of verse]
Contributors: Morton, Sarah Wentworth, 1759-1846.; Hill, Samuel, 1766?-1804, engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 21979.
Publisher: by Isaiah Thomas and Company. Sold at their bookstore, no. 45, Newbury Street. And at said Thomas's bookstore in Worcester.
Published: 1789
Place of publication: Printed at Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Apthorpe, Frances Theodora, -- 1766-1788.
Notes: Fictional acount of Frances Theodora Apthorp, sister of Sarah Wentworth Morton, to whom the work has often been attributed. William Hill Brown is generally accepted as the author. Cf. Ellis, Milton. "The author of the first American novel." American Literature 4 (1933): 359-368.

Signatures: v. 1, A-Lœ́ Mþ́ (M4 blank); v. 2, pi℗ø N-Uœ́ Wœ́ X-Zœ́ &œ́ (&6 blank)

The frontispiece, engraved by Samuel Hill, is the only illustration.

Vol. 1: vi, [1], 8-138, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates; v. 2: 158, [2] p.

Evans 21979.

BAL 1518.

Wright, L.H.  Amer. fiction, 1774-1850 (2nd ed.), 433.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 21979)