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182844998New-York: S. King 1828. Very good plus. Early Republic American edition of an altered version of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's work featuring a happy ending not present in the original. This is the story of two French colonist children who grow up side-by-side and fall in love in Mauritius only to be torn apart by class expectations. PAUL AND VIRGINIA is punctuated by abolitionist themes which this version makes more explicit: rather than dying in a shipwreck as in the original work Virginia is rescued by a formerly enslaved man. OCLC located only two holdings of this edition the first published by S. King in New York. 12mo. 7.25'' x 4.25''. Modern half-calf binding with marbled boards. Hand-colored etched frontispiece. 32 pages followed by 18 modern blank leaves collated complete. Binding with a bit of edgewear to spine. Leaves with light scattered soil mild bleedthrough of colors to back of frontispiece. Sharp. S. King unknown