Details

Subject(s)

• Toys—Juvenile fiction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Boys—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Children's stories, English—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Attributed name

• Marshall, John (Printer) [Browse]
• Kilner, Dorothy, 1755-1836 [Browse]

Former owner

• Kilner, Frances, 1783- [Browse]
• Milnes, Richard Monckton, Baron Houghton, 1809-1885 [Browse]
• Bell, L. G. E. (L. Gerald E.) [Browse]

Publisher

• John Marshall and Co. (Booksellers : London, England) [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dutch gilt paper bindings [Browse]
• Inscriptions [Browse]
• Bookplates [Browse]

Contained in

• Multi-title collection including The adventures of a whipping-top : illustrated with stories of many bad boys, who themselves deserve whipping, and of some good boys, who deserve plumcakes and 1 other(s).

Notes

• Attribution to Kilner from "The Book Collector," v.18 (1969), p.519.
• Marshall & Co. active between 1779 and 1789 (cf. David Stoker. "John Marshall, John Evans and the Cheap Repository Tracts 1793-1800").
• "Price six pence"--At foot of title page.
• Frontispiece included in pagination.
• Last page is blank.
• ESTC also lists another, 108-page of this title, in a different setting of type, by Marshall & Co." (Cotsen 35475), as well as a 92-page issue by John Marshall alone.
• Illustrations: Wood-engraved frontispiece and 27 half-page wood-engravings throughout the text.
• Signatures: A-I⁶ K².
• Princeton copy 1 A-I⁶ L² (varies from other Cotsen copies in signing of last gathering, but text and layout otherwise appears the same as in other copies).
• Princeton copy 1 Inscribed on front pastedown: "Fanny Kilner."
• Princeton copy 1 Printed amorial "Kilner" bookplate on front free endpaper recto.
• Princeton copy 2 Inscribed at foot of page 111 (after printed text "The End"): "The" and "T [illegible]".
• Princeton copy 2 Page 111 laid down to lower cover and pages 109-110 reattached to text block.
• Princeton copy 3 Inscribed on front paste-down and facing free endpaper: "By S. S., Mary Ann Maze, afterwards Mrs. Kilner, born Dec. 14. 1753, married Ap: 18 1774, died Dec. 1. 1831, aged 78. Gt. Gt. Gt. Grandmother to Anthony Crookham; given to H. A. K. Crookham, April 30 1907, by his grannie, Fanny M. Emery."
• Princeton copy 4 Inscribed at head of title page: "JH," and at foot of last page of text (p. 111): "Joseph Hodgson, I read this June 29, 1841."
• Princeton copy 4 Printed bookplate on front pastedown: "Crewe Hall Library, Juvenile Books, Box 13" (with 13 inked in)
• Princeton copy 4 Small bookplate on front pastedown: "L.G.E. Bell Collection of Children's Books."
• Princeton copy 1 Each Cotsen copy with differently-patterned Dutch paper; copies vary slightly in size: 120 (2), 122, and 125 mm.
• Princeton copy 2 Each Cotsen copy with differently-patterned Dutch paper; copies vary slightly in size: 120 (2), 122, and 125 mm.
• Princeton copy 3 Each Cotsen copy with differently-patterned Dutch paper; copies vary slightly in size: 120 (2), 122, and 125 mm.
• Princeton copy 4 Each Cotsen copy with differently-patterned Dutch paper; copies vary slightly in size: 120 (2), 122, and 125 mm.
• Princeton copy 2 Within a later marbled paper clamshell box with "Adventures of a whipping top."
• Princeton copy 3 Within red quarter morocco black cloth case, spine gilt-stamped with title and gilt-ruled.
• Princeton copy 1 Spine perished, bds hanging by cords

References

English short title catalogue, T171550

Spine title (copy 2)

• Peg-top

In

Princeton copy 2: Multi-title collection including The adventures of a whipping-top : illustrated with stories of many bad boys, who themselves deserve whipping, and of some good boys, who deserve plumcakes and 1 other(s).

OCLC

78817079

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