Details

Subject(s)

• Christmas music [Browse]
• Birds—Pictorial works [Browse]

Publisher

Pitts, John, 1765-1844 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Games [Browse]
• Publishers' paper bindings [Browse]

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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