LEADER 04027cam a2200565 i 4500001 9988233493506421 005 20240913093608.0 008 141028q17541774enka j 000 1 eng d 035 (NjP)8823349-princetondb 035 (OCoLC)ocn900480899 035 |z(NjP)Voyager8823349 040 NjP |beng |erda |cNjP 245 02 A Christmass box, or, Little polite tales, fables riddles, stories, letters, epitaphs, &c. : |bin easy prose and verse, with other lessons of morality equally instructive & entertaining for little masters and misses : adorned with sculptures. 246 13 Christmas box 246 30 Little polite tales 264 1 London : |bPrinted for R. Baldwin at the Rose (No. 47) in Pater Noster Row & by ye booksellers in town & country, |c[between 1754 and 1774] 300 128 pages, 2 leaves of plates : |billustrations (engravings, wood engravings) ; |c11 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 500 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). 500 "Christmass" as printed on title page. 500 "Adorned with sculptures" --After title, between 2 horizontal rules. 500 "Price only sixpence, bound & gilt" -- At foot of title page. 500 "Printed according to Act of Parliament" --At head of frontispiece. 500 "Printed for R. Baldwin" --Below frontispiece. 500 Engraved frontispiece and title page, both printed in black (frontispiece is reversed from version in "Little polite tales"). 500 Title page epigram: "Example draws where precept fails. / And sermons are less read than tales / Mat. Prior." 500 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 500 Signatures: A-H⁸. 500 |3Cotsen copy:Lacks leaf E1 (pages 65/66) |5NjP 500 |3Cotsen copy:Inscribed (vertically) on front free endpaper: "Jos. Phillips, Jany. 17th 1774" with a flourish below. |5NjP 500 |3Cotsen copy:Inscribed in pencil on front pastedown: "John Phillips book, 1806." |5NjP 520 A miscellany of fables, riddles, short stories, short poems, epitaphs, and precepts (content is the same as in Baldwin's "Little polite tales"). 563 Publisher's embossed Dutch floral paper boards. 583 0 |3Cotsen copy:From booksellers description: The work commences with a Prologue, followed by 'A short Essay on the Nature and Beauty of Fable, by way of Preface;' then follows 'An Alphabet in Verse, containing Rules of Life; an alphabet of Proverbial Sentences'; pages 12 - 61 are taken up with Fables; the next 11 pages with riddles; then follows some stories from the Bible; the tale of King Lear; 'The Rival Tutors, An Oriental Fiction; the remaining pages are mostly verse and epitaphs. |5NjP 650 0 Children's stories |vEarly works to 1800. 650 0 Children's poetry |vEarly works to 1800. 650 0 Conduct of life |vJuvenile fiction |vEarly works to 1800. 655 0 Miscellanies |vEarly works to 1800. 655 7 Fiction. |2lcgft |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2014026339 655 7 Dutch gilt paper bindings |2rbmscv 655 7 Inscriptions |5NjP |2rbmscv 655 7 Markings |y18th century. |2rbprov |5NjP 700 1 Baldwin, Richard, |d1724-1770, |ebookseller. |0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr91022128 720 1 Phillips, Jos. 856 42 |3Commentary |uhttps://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2014/12/a-christmas-box-or-a-small-christmas-mystery/ 902 jba |bo |6a |7m |dv |f1 |e20141202 904 llb |bo |hn |cb |e20141029 914 (OCoLC)ocn900480899 |bOCoLC |cfield transfer |d20221117 |eprocessed |f900480899