A Christmass box, or, Little polite tales, fables riddles, stories, letters, epitaphs, &c. : in easy prose and verse, with other lessons of morality equally instructive & entertaining for little masters and misses : adorned with sculptures.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose (No. 47) in Pater Noster Row & by ye booksellers in town & country, [between 1754 and 1774]
Description
128 pages, 2 leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings, wood engravings) ; 11 cm

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 154156 Eng 18 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Summary note
    A miscellany of fables, riddles, short stories, short poems, epitaphs, and precepts (content is the same as in Baldwin's "Little polite tales").
    Notes
    • Tentatively dated between 1774 date inscribed in Cotsen copy and 1754, when when Baldwin apparently discontinued use of "junior" in his imprints (cf. C.Y. Ferdinand, "Richard Johnson Junior, Bookseller," in Studies in Bibliography, no. 89, p. 259).
    • "Christmass" as printed on title page.
    • "Adorned with sculptures" --After title, between 2 horizontal rules.
    • "Price only sixpence, bound & gilt" -- At foot of title page.
    • "Printed according to Act of Parliament" --At head of frontispiece.
    • "Printed for R. Baldwin" --Below frontispiece.
    • Engraved frontispiece and title page, both printed in black (frontispiece is reversed from version in "Little polite tales").
    • Title page epigram: "Example draws where precept fails. / And sermons are less read than tales / Mat. Prior."
    • Illustrations: Engraved title page and frontispiece, woodcut vignettes at the the head of fables and tales, and decorative woodcut headpiece at the head of riddles
    • Signatures: A-H⁸.
    • Cotsen copy: Lacks leaf E1 (pages 65/66)
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed (vertically) on front free endpaper: "Jos. Phillips, Jany. 17th 1774" with a flourish below.
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed in pencil on front pastedown: "John Phillips book, 1806."
    Binding note
    Publisher's embossed Dutch floral paper boards.
    Other title(s)
    • Christmas box
    • Little polite tales
    OCLC
    900480899
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