English, Thomas Dunn, 1819-1902 [1867], Ambrose fecit, or, The peer and the printer: a novel. (Hilton and Company, New York) [word count] [eaf558T].

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Ambrose Fecit; or, The Peer and the Printer. A Novel.

Front Matter Front matter Covers, Edges and Spine Preliminaries Title Page Main text CHAPTER I. , Which introduces a nice little girl, and an accident. CHAPTER II. , Which is principally about a Baby, a Mysterious Personage in Black, and the Church-Clock. CHAPTER III. , Wherein I become almost a Spanish Scholar, but lose both my Teachers. CHAPTER IV. , Which details singular events, including a fresh Mystery, and introduces the Right Honorable the Earl of Landys. CHAPTER V. , In which I meet with the Dowager Countess, and see a strange portrait. CHAPTER VI. , Wherein another Chip is thrown into the current of my Life, and I hear from Zara. CHAPTER VII. , Which contains singular revelations, and tells of the growth of an odd friendship. CHAPTER VIII. , Which tells of the Entertainments at the Castle, and of a Finale not Rehearsed. CHAPTER IX. , Which describes a bold Stroke of the Peer and his Steward. CHAPTER X. , Wherein the Storm becomes so fierce that I Scud before it. [header] CHAPTER XII. , Wherein Selgrove quite undoes the work of Coppleton, until we set two Richards in the field. CHAPTER XIII. , Which, after a brilliant success, brings about a catastrophe and a warning. CHAPTER XIV. , Which brings back little Zara, and introduces a real Duke. CBAPTHER XV. Introducing a new acquaintance and more mystery. CHAPTER XVI. , Which tells of close confinement, a mysterious gnawing, and how we all scampered. CHAPTER XVII. Wherein, after a debate held by all parties concerned, I take flight again. CHAPTER XVIII. , Which contains a queer story, which the reader had better make a note of. CHAPTER XIX. , Giving nautical incidents, and an interesting nautical manœuvre, not to be told to the marines. CHAPTER XX. , Which brings me to New York, where I find employment, and make a new acquaintance. CHAPTER XXI. , Wherein I cultivate Amelia's acquaintance, and get a nurse. [header] CHAPTER XXIII. , Which clears up the close of the last, and takes the reader to the dismissal of characters in one of the by-plots. CHAPTER XXIV. , Wherein we travel to the mountains, and I tell what we meet there. CHAPTER XXV. , Which tells of a Discovery, not such as I desired, but which turns out to be profitable, and of news from home. CHAPTER XXVI. Wherein we have a little love-making and other miseries. CHAPTER XXVII. , Which makes me and breaks me, and blows Zara on a lee shore. CHAPTER XXVIII. In which the ship of the narrator sails unexpectedly into port, with the usual cargo. Back matter An Excellent New Novel!