Little polite tales, fables, riddles, stories, letters, epitaphs &c. : in easy prose and verse, with other lessons of morality equally instructive & entertaining for little masters and misses.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London: Printed & sold by R. Baldwin jun. at the Rose in Paternoster Row, and by ye booksellers in town and country, [between 1751 and 1754?]
Description
128 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings, woodcuts) ; 10 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Bookseller
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Summary note
A miscellany of fables, riddles, short stories, short poems, epitaphs, and precepts.
Notes
  • "A pretty present as a Christmas Box or New Years gift" --After title, between 2 horizontal rules.
  • A different setting of type, with differing woodcut head- and tailpieces, than Baldwin's 1751 ed.
  • Tentatively dating from the 1751 publication date of another Cotsen ed. and terminal date suggested by C.Y. Ferdinand ("Richard Johnson Junior, Bookseller," in Studies in Bibliography, no. 89, p. 259).
  • Engraved frontispiece and title page, both printed in red and black.
  • "Price six pence" -- At foot of title page.
  • "Printed according to Act of Parliament" --At head of frontispiece.
  • Title page epigram: "Example draws where precept fails. / And sermons are less read than tales / Mat. Prior."
  • Illustrations: Engraved title page and frontispiece (depicting a Peaceable Kingdom scene), woodcut vignettes at the the head of fables and tales, and decorative woodcut headpiece at the head of riddles.
  • Signatures: A-H⁸ (this copy lacking (H2-H7).
  • Cotsen copy: Lacking pages 115-126 (H2-H7), with page numbers apparently clipped on pages 114 and 127.
  • Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front pastedown: "Sarah Snee"; also inscribed in pencil on the facing page: "Elizabeth Bray..." [?].
  • Cotsen copy: Pen trials on front pastedown and facing free endpaper and on rear pastedown.
Binding note
Publisher's embossed Dutch floral paper boards.
Other title(s)
Pretty present as a Christmas Box or New Years gift
OCLC
900479045
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