Details

Subject(s)

• Riddles—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Hodges, James, Sir, -1774 [Browse]

Former owner

• Sayer, Mary [Browse]
• Sayer, Ann [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Inscriptions—18th century [Browse]

Notes

• Full imprint from ESTC's transcription of Hodges' imprint used on other titles; Princeton copy trimmed at bottom of page after the words "at the..."
• Thirty riddles, including abridgments of some by Swift, on subjects such as the letter M, louse, needle, oyster, backside, stays, fart, wind, a shadow, and a paper kite.
• Pages 5-64 in red on recto and black on verso; one side of the sheet printed in black, the other side in red.
• Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece, depicting fashionable children playing a riddle game, with black and red full and half-page engravings throughout.
• Princeton copy 1: Inscribed (upside down) on front free endpaper (frontispiece recto): "Ann Sayer, her book, given her by Docr. Sam Shepherd, 12 March, 1750"; above that is a struck-out inscription at head of the page: "Given to Mary Sayer by Doctor Samuel Shepherd, 12 March, 1750."
• Princeton copy 1: Inscribed on blank page [4]: "Mary Sayer, her book, Aug 30, 1768," and below that, "Buy thou the truth, and sell it not."

Binding note

• Contemporary white floral-embossed boards.
• Princeton copy 1: Rebacked.

Other title(s)

• Collection of chaste & significant riddles
• Chaste and significant riddles
• New Years gift

OCLC

1122607136

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