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Thaddeus of Warsaw. In four Volumes … by Miss Porter. The fifth Edition.

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Fifth edition of Jane Porter’s famous first book. The book, which led to a friendship between Porter and General Kościuszko, quickly became a best-seller (a new edition every year to 1806, eleven by 1826). The ‘Advertisement to the Second Edition’, commented at her pleasure at ‘totally unexpected’ success of the novel.

Garside 1803:59, note.

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