Conversations and amusing tales : offered to the publick for the youth of Great Britain …
Date1799
Names
English, Harriet
(author)
Hatchard, John, 1768-1849
(publisher)
Clarke, Charles
(printer)
Hamilton, William, 1751-1801
(illustrator)
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815
(engraver)
Cadell & Davies
(bookseller)
Egerton, Thomas (Bookseller)
(bookseller)
Faulder, Robert, 1747 or 1748-1815
(bookseller)
Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816
(bookseller)
Newberry, Francis 1743-1818
(bookseller)
Darton & Harvey (London, England)
(bookseller)
Format
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.
Country:Great Britain
Medium
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
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Call Number / Accession Number37131039929070D
Catalogue Record for Print Bookhttps://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=1896175
approximately 1835