So near, but so unreachable

[luzula]

Woe. I would like to read the mid-18th century novel The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu, which is about the romantic friendship between two women who travel around Europe cross-dressed as men.

I can't find it on the Internet Archive or HathiTrust. I know there's an electronic copy in the Gale collection, but my university library doesn't have a licence for that part of the collection! When I asked them for an ILL, they said you can't do an ILL of an electronic text. And I bet it's the kind of electronic text that you can't download but have to read online, so I probably can't just find someone with a library card at a university that has it and ask them to download and send it to me. Which is ironic because it's not like it's in copyright! Woe, I say again.

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[ride_4ever]

A related question: would you be interested in buying a reprint sold via Amazon rather than a loaned library copy?

The Travels and Adventures of Mademoiselle de Richelieu as sold via Amazon.

[luzula]

Oh, I hadn't even thought of checking that, since the library said they couldn't find a printed copy! If I can't get it any other way, I'll certainly do that. Thanks a lot!

ETA: Although I see it's in several volumes, so it would cost a bit. : /

ETA2: Or I suppose I could submit a suggestion to the university library to buy the printed edition, they quite often do when you suggest something.

[ride_4ever]

Being a librarian working in Collection Management, I spend hours a day on the Amazon Books site and similar sites, so I just automatically thought to check there. (And I belatedly realized after offering to do ILL check that it wouldn't have been helpful for you because our ILL isn't international.)