Details

Subject(s)

• Toys—Juvenile fiction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Boys—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Children's stories, English—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Associated name

• Marshall, John (Printer) [Browse]

Publisher

• John Marshall and Co. (Booksellers : London, England) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• Attribution to Kilner from "The Book Collector," v.18 (1969), p.519.
• Date based on inscription in Cotsen copy; Marshall & Co. active between 1779 and 1789 (cf. David Stoker. "John Marshall, John Evans and the Cheap Repository Tracts 1793-1800").
• "Price sixpence"--At foot of title page.
• Unnumbered frontispiece and title page, followed by Preface on pages numbered "vi" and "viii"
• Signatures: A-I⁶.
• Distinct from Marshall's 112 page version of this title with the same "Marshall & Co." imprint; also, in this issue the title page has an added line spacing between imprint and price, the Preface is set in italics, and the text is in a smaller font; no precedence established.
• Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front pastedown: "Matilda Hall, April 27th, 1789."

Binding note

Contemporary brown paper-covered boards, embossed in a floral design.

OCLC

896148170

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