Details

Subject(s)

• Children—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Orphans—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Cats—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Bookseller

Sabine, T. (Thomas), -1810 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• Children in the wood on pages 5-50; Whittington and his cat on pages [51]-96.
• Undated; Thomas Sabine active under the name Sabine and Son from 1808-1825 (cf. Maxted, p. 197).
• Illustrations: Wood-engraved frontispiece included in pagination; wood-engraved title-page vignette on added title page for Whittington, depicting Whittngton and his cat, which is repeated on page 69.
• Cotsen copy: Signed on Whittington title page and inscribed on later added binder's blank at front.

Binding note

• Publisher's pictorial light brown wrappers, with publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper.
• Cotsen copy: Wrappers reinforced with brown paper and bound into later full calf boards.

Other title(s)

• Children in the wood
• Sir. R. Whittington and his cat.
• Whittington and his cat.

OCLC

900479035

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