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]

Author

• Kilner, Dorothy, 1755-1836 [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

• Dutch gilt paper bindings [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including The adventures of a whipping-top : illustrated with stories of many bad boys, who themselves deserve whipping, and of some good boys, who deserve plumcakes and 1 other(s).

Notes

• Sometimes attributed to Dorothy Kilner (cf. ESTC).
• Publishing as "John Marshall and Co." until Nov. 1789 when the partnership was dissolved (cf. David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository Tracts, 1793-1800," PBSA 107: 1 (2013) 81-118).
• "Price three pence, bound"--At foot of title page.
• First (frontispiece) and last leaves laid down to inside covers.
• Publisher's advertisement on 3 pages at end: "Books for the instruction and amusement of children, printed and sold by J. Marshall and Co."
• Princeton copy 4 On title page, the word "boys" is upper case, and "London" is set in roman type (ESTC's copy notes "bad" in upper case, and another variation of this title has "London" in black letter).
• Princeton copy 4 Cotsen copy similar to ESTC copy (cited below) but varies in title page printing and in number of pages in advertisement.
• Princeton copy 4 Within a later marbled paper clamshell both with: "Memoirs of a Peg-top."

Binding note

Publisher's Dutch floral paper-covered boards.

References

cf. English short title catalogue, N42510

In

Princeton copy 4: Multi-title collection including The adventures of a whipping-top : illustrated with stories of many bad boys, who themselves deserve whipping, and of some good boys, who deserve plumcakes and 1 other(s).

OCLC

1101131717

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