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The twelve days of Christmas : sung at King Pippins Hall.
Uniform title
Twelve days of Christmas (English folk song)
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Printed and published by J. Pitts at his old established marble and toy warehouse, 6 Great St. Andrew Street, 7 Dials, [not after 1825]
Description
20 unnumbered pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 14 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
153696 Eng 18
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Subject(s)
Christmas music
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Publisher
Pitts, John, 1765-1844
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Rare books genre
Games
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Publishers' paper bindings
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19th century
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Notes
Presented as a fireside memory-and-forfiets game" (cf. Opie, Oxford dict. of nursery rhymes, p. 141); "Directions for playing," on pages [3-4].
Dated from the 1825 watermark on leaf 4; (Pitts active at 6 Gt. St. Andrew St. address from 1819-1844, cf. Brown, London publishers, p. 151).
First and last leaves laid down to wrappers.
Pastedowns, which are not integral to the text block, are illustrated with boys and girls shaking down letters of the alphabet from the tree of knowledge (front) and a character from the commedia d'el arte (rear).
Second "i" in "Pippins" on title page is number 1, thus: "PIPP1NS"
Binding note
Publisher's pale blue wrappers, upper with star woodcut between cover title and imprint and lower with two cuts and price: "two pence plain; and fourpence coloured."
Other title(s)
Pitts' new edition of the Twelve days of Christmas
New edition of the Twelve days of Christmas
Cover title
Pitts's new edition of the Twelve days of Christmas
OCLC
11736904
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