Visits to the juvenile library, or, Knowledge proved to be the source of happiness - Fenwick, E. (Eliza); Tabart and Co.; Barnard and Sultzer (London : Printed by Barnard and Sultzer, Water Lane, Fleet-Street, for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School Library, No. 157 New Bond-Street, and to be had of all booksellers, 1805)
Five orphan children, brought from the West Indies by their maid, Nora, learn to love learning thanks to their kind governess and Mr. Tabart's books.
Authorship attributed to Fenwick by Osborne, Moon, and NUC.
Publisher's catalog of 96 numbered Tabart titles on [16] p. at end: "The following instructive, interesting, and superior books, for children and young persons of both sexes..."
Illustrations: Engraved frontis., showing the exterior of the Juvenile Library, and 5 other plates within the text, including 2 depicting the interior and others showing people reading; 3 plates dated July, 1805 by Tabart.
Some of the narrative is presented in the form of a dialogue (cf. Tabart's Visit to a Farm), in which many Tabart titles are discussed
"The only edition, a comment on its lack of appeal ... a large-scale advertisement for Tabart's publications" (cf. Moon).
Moon, M. Tabart's juvenile library
Keywords: Books and reading -- Juvenile fiction; Booksellers and bookselling -- Great Britain; Children -- Juvenile fiction; London (England) -- Description and travel -- Juvenile literature; Fiction; Publishers' bindings