Christmas holidays : a poem / written for the amusement & instruction of all good masters & misses in the known world by Tommy Tell-Truth.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for H. Roberts, near Hand Alley almost opposite Great Turnstile, Holborn, and H. Turpin, at the Golden Key in St. John's Street, West Smithfield, [not before 1767]
Description
2 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 15 cm

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Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Notes
  • Dated from plates.
  • "Adorn'd with several curious copper plates" --Title page.
  • "Price six pence bound and gilt" --At foot of title page.
  • A different work than the 1765 (18 page) title noted in ESTC, presumably a later publication with additional material.
  • Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece, and two engraved plates, dated "Decemr. 24, 1767," all depicting Christmas or New Year's recreations.
  • Cotsen copy: Inscribed vertically on rear pastedown in brown, apparently by a child: "Edward."
Binding note
Publisher's Dutch floral paper-covered boards.
Contents
  • Christmas holidays: a poem
  • A collection of letters, from several pretty masters and misses to their parents... .
OCLC
878190397
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