Bibliographer: Derek Sonntag

Munster Village, a Novel

This experimental description of Munster Village was designed to imagine how the book might have used a visual advertisement to depict itself. Using themes from the book, I drew a simple but colorful depiction of what Lady Francis's utopian community might have been.

Traditional Description

Walker, Mary, Lady. Munster Village, a Novel. In two volumes. …

 

MUNSTER VILLAGE, | A | NOVEL | IN TWO VOLUMES. | VOL. I. | LONDON: | Printed for Robson and Co. New Bond Street; | Walter, Charing Cross; | And Robinson, Parternoster Row. | M.DCC.LXXVIII.

 

I 202p; II 260p. 8vo.

 

Contents:

Vol. I:     A1r half title, A1v blank, A2r title, A2v blank, B1r - O5v text, O6r advertisement

Vol. II:   A1r half title, A1v blank, A2r title, A2v blank, B1r - S2v text

 

Notes:

Copy of novel found in Bodleian Library (Oxford).

Facsimile taken from comes from Gale Document CW116601550 via Eighteenth Century Collections Online.

The advertisement at the end of Volume I is for another Mary Walker novel, Letters from the Duchess de Crui and Others

Experimental Description