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Conversations and amusing tales : offered to the publick for the youth of Great Britain …
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Book cover: Black cloth, unadorned.

Conversations and amusing tales : offered to the publick for the youth of Great Britain …

Date1799
Format
Notes
Armorial bookplate of R.H Crew is inside the front cover. Dedication type-signed: Harriet English. During the course of a year from New Year's Day until New Year's Eve, an aunt, through conversations and stories, tries to improve her six nieces and nephews. Errata on p. [2] before text. Illustrated with a frontispiece engraved on copper by F. Bartolozzi after W. Hamilton and twelve oval vignettes printed in aquatint and numbered in manuscript each on a separate plate. Includes music: Address to the British Fair, by S. Webbe, [2] leaves of plates following p. 385. List of subscribers on p. [2]-[7] at end.
DimensionsCover size: 24 cm x 19.5 cm (9 7/16 in. x 7 11/16 in.)
Extent
  • [2], [v]-xi, [3], 385, [7] pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations
Language
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131039929070D