Details

Subject(s)

• Children—Juvenile literature—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Schools—Pictorial works—Juvenile fiction—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Animals—Pictorial works—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Games—Pictorial works—Juvenile literature—Early works to 1800 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Read, T., active 1723-1758 [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Dutch gilt paper bindings [Browse]
• Songs [Browse]
• Nursery rhymes [Browse]

Notes

• "And to be had at all pamphlet shops" -- After imprint on title page.
• "Price six pence" -- at foot of title page.
• Songs printed on pages 25-56, set beneath illustrations.
• Signatures: [A]⁴ B⁸ C-F⁴ (last leaf is blank).
• Illustrations: Frontispiece (captioned "A School" and showing a master birching the hands of a student) and 68 etchings, printed in either black or red, each set beneath a caption; illustrations on pages IV-XXIV are arranged two to a page; many illustrations show children at play, and others depict birds and animals.
• Cotsen copy: With the glittered silver box in which Ms. Morgan kept the book.

Binding note

Publisher's Dutch gilt paper-covered boards.

Other title(s)

• Nancy Cock's songbook
• Song-book
• Songbook

OCLC

957971123

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