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Rational sports : in dialogues passing among the children of a family : designed as a hint to mothers how they may inform the minds of their little people respecting the objects with which they are surrounded.

Accession number
PML 84931
Creator
Lovechild, Mrs., 1743-1813.
Published
London : Printed and sold by John Marshall and Co. No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane, [1783]
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Alexander O. Vietor in memory of her daughter, Barbara Foster Vietor, 1956-1966, 1984.
Notes
1 p. advertisement for works by Mrs. Teachwell, last leaf.
According to Wm. B. Todd, Dictionary of Printers, John Marshall, Sr., was at this address between 1782 and 1804.
Anonymous. By Lady Eleanor Fenn, who used the pseudonym Mrs. Lovechild.
Collation: A-I⁶ K⁸ [L]¹
Dedication dated July 16, 1783.
First edition.
Half-title.
Verical chainlines.
Description
[i-iv], v-xviii, 19-124, [2] p. ; 16 cm
Provenance
Louisa Frances Dalrymple (inscription dated 1816).
Binding
Calf-backed, marbled boards.
Classification
Department