Songs for the nursery : collected from the works of the most renowned poets and adapted to favorite national melodies.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, New Bond-Street, and to be had of all booksellers, [1808] ([London] : W. Marchant, printer, 3 Greville-Street, Holborn)
Description
59, [5] p., [24] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 13 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Printer
Marchant, W. [Browse]
Former owner
Publisher
Tabart and Co. [Browse]
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Notes
  • Printer from colophon.
  • "Price sixpence without prints, One shilling and sixpence with prints, or Half a crown with the prints coloured"--At foot of t.p. before date.
  • Illustrations: Hand-colored engraved fronts., and 23 other leaves of colored plates, most dated either "1806" or "May 15, 1806" by Tabart, with verse below; most ills. depict children.
  • Publisher's advertisements on t.p. verso and on both upper and lower wrappers, with publisher's catalog of 34 numbered titles on [5] p. at end.
  • First published in 1805 by Tabart in a 75 p. ed. (cf. Moon).
  • Cotsen copy: Bussell-Oppenheimer copy.
Binding note
  • Pub. printed yellow wrappers.
  • Cotsen copy: The word "songs" obscurred from upper wrapper, due to wear; book within a later black quarter-morocco slipcase.
References
Moon, M. Tabart's juvenile library, 159 (2)
OCLC
8334370
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