Mary Goodchild.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Stt., [between 1828 and 1843]
Description
6 unnumbered leaves : colored illustrations (wood engravings) ; 20 cm

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 85702 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 027 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Subject(s)
    Publisher
    Rare books genre
    Series
    Dame Wonder's transformations
    Notes
    • Title and imprint from front wrapper.
    • "Price sixpence"--At foot of upper cover.
    • Hand-colored illustrations above printed verse and two lines of text on each page.
    • Date range based on publisher's address and form of name, (cf. Hall & Muir Conjuring books 1800-1850 and Brown, London publishers and printers, p. 55).
    • Each leaf is illustrated with a picture of Mary, with a cut-out hole where the face should be, through which the face printed on the last leaf can be seen. Thus, as the pages are turned, Mary appears in different costumes.
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front wrapper: "Marie S. Scott, May 19th, 1851."
    Binding note
    Pub. yellow pictorial wrappers printed in black with publisher's advertisement for Uncle Buncle series (printed vertically) on lower wrapper.
    Source acquisition
    Cotsen copy: Diana Rexford Tillson Collection, the gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen '50.
    References
    Cf. Haining, Peter. Movable books, p. 20-21.
    Other title(s)
    Transformations: Mary Goodchild.
    OCLC
    15533176
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