Details

Subject(s)

• Children's stories, English—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Children—Juvenile literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Conduct of life—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Publisher

• Carnan, Thomas, -1788 [Browse]
• Newbery, Francis, 1743-1818 [Browse]

Attributed name

• Newbery, John, 1713-1767 [Browse]
• Jones, Giles, active 1765 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]

Notes

• First and last leaves laid down to wrappers.
• "Price one penny"--At foot of t.p.
• Preface, on p. [4], signed by "The bookseller," leading some to identify John Newbery himself as the author; also attributed Giles Jones, among others.
• Publisher's advertisement on pages 29-[30].
• Illustrations: 16 woodcuts.
• Cotsen copy: Inscription (faded and illegible) on rear pastedown.

Binding note

Publisher's buff pictorial wrappers, each with woodcuts depicting fashionable people in outside recteations (blindman's bluff and badminton, resp.) set within different decorative floral borders.

References

• Roscoe, J 267 (this ed. not listed)
• Tattersfield, Thomas Bewick, 4.I.1-2

Other title(s)

Giles Gingerbread

OCLC

885074431

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