Details

Subject(s)

• Engravers—England—Biography [Browse]
• People with disabilities [Browse]

Printer

• Gosnell, Samuel [Browse]

Former owner

• Moon, Marjorie [Browse]

Publisher

• Tabart and Co. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Autobiographies [Browse]

Notes

• Atrributed to Jenner by Moon.
• Dedication signed by "the author," in which he likens himself and his story to a "football at your feet" (p. 3-4), followed by a preface "To the Readers" (p. 5-13) in which he asks for a careful reading.
• Includes a section (p. 24-28) in which Jenner relates the series of childhood accidents and nursing blunders which left him crippled for life.
• Illustrations: Engraved frontis. (showing the author as a boy reading at a book stall) and mezzotint self-portrait facing p. 91, which shows the author as a stunted adult.
• Cotsen copy: "To Miss M.A. Keble, with Mrs. Brights [sic] Love"--Inscribed on front pastedown.
• Cotsen copy: Printed woman-in-the-moon bookplate of Marjorie Moon on front pastedown.

Binding note

• Pub. gray paper-covered boards.
• Cotsen copy: Rebacked with quarter gray calf.

References

Moon, M. Tabart juvenile library, 75

OCLC

25350500

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