Accession number
PML 87294
Creator
Kendall, Edward Augustus, 1776?-1842.
Published
London : Printed for E. Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-yard, 1799.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 2007.
Notes
Half-title.
Copper-engraved frontispiece signed "Taylor, sculp." [i.e. Isaac Taylor]; dated May 20, 1790.
Library's copy: frontispiece trimmed at foot, no date visible.
Wood-engraved title vignette attributed to Thomas Bewick; cf. Osborne Coll. and Roscoe, cited below.
Publisher's advertisements: p. 153-156, have been misfolded in this copy, so are out of order.
Copper-engraved frontispiece signed "Taylor, sculp." [i.e. Isaac Taylor]; dated May 20, 1790.
Library's copy: frontispiece trimmed at foot, no date visible.
Wood-engraved title vignette attributed to Thomas Bewick; cf. Osborne Coll. and Roscoe, cited below.
Publisher's advertisements: p. 153-156, have been misfolded in this copy, so are out of order.
Description
vi, 156 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 14 cm.
Summary
Adventures and world travels of a wren, written from the bird's point of view. Includes a chapter on the natural history of wrens.
Binding
Publisher's green vellum spine, marbled boards.
Classification
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