CATHARINE
OR THE BOWER
[Dedication:]
To Miss Austen
MADAM
Encouraged by your warm patronage of The beautiful Cassandra, and The History of England, which through your generous support have obtained a place in every library in the Kingdom, and run through threescore Editions, I take the liberty of begging the same Exertions in favour of the following Novel, which I humbly flatter myself, possesses Merit beyond any already published, or any that will ever in future appear, except such as may proceed from the pen of Your Most Grateful Humble Servt.
THE AUTHOR
Steventon August 1792 --