Details

Subject(s)

• George III King of Great Britain 1738-1820—Portraits [Browse]
• Children's stories, English—18th century [Browse]
• Children's poetry, English—18th century [Browse]

Publisher

• Cooper, Mary, -1761 [Browse]

Engraver

• Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Primers (Instructional books) [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]
• Alphabet books [Browse]
• Markings—18th century [Browse]
• Pen trials—18th century [Browse]

Summary note

First four leaves with alphabet and vocabularly words on rectos, set within typographical borders, with versified alphabet on facing versos; Preface Shewing the Use of the Alphabets begins p. 15, followed by vocabulary lessons, proverbs, reading passages and poetry, with a brief section on numbers, including Roman numerals; reading selections include: fables (Fable of the Two Dogs, Huntsman and the Young Hound, The Foolish Stag), Bible stories (Creation, Noah's Ark, Joseph and his Brethren, Sampson and Delilah), and short fiction: (St. George and the Dragon, Guy Earl of Warwick, Fortunatus, Reynard the Fox); poems (captioned "Songs") in last 6 pages.

Notes

• Illustrations: Engraved frontis. of "Prince George" (later George III) as a young boy in a dress, woodcuts at the head of reading selections, and woodcut tailpieces.
• Princeton 1: Frontispiece portrait has been traced on the back and outlined in ink by a reader, who also added female body parts.
• Princeton 1: Inscribed on front pastedown and endpaper in different hands: "John Beague His Book 1753", "Master Beague 1748", and "John Beague, his book, written by Lazarus Sutton, August 12, 1750"; ink markings and pen trials on front endpaper verso, rear pastedown, and last page of text.
• Princeton 1: Leaf F10 (page 139-140) torn away leaving only a fragment of text.

Binding note

• Contemporary speckled dark brown sheep with blind-ruled borders on covers.
• Princeton 1: Within later orange marbled-paper covered slipcase.

OCLC

1137107085

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