Accession number
PML 8206.12
Creator
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Published
[London] : Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow Lane, London, [between 1770 and 1790?]
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
Vertical chainlines.
In this edition, the drop-head title (p. 2) is between ornamental rules and the page number is in rounded brackets.
Research by David Stoker suggests a general publication date range spanning from the 1770s to the 1780s for chapbooks bearing the "Aldermary Churchyard" and "Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane" imprints, with those bearing the street address "No. 4 Aldermary Churchyard" probably printed sometime after the mid 1770s.
In this edition, the drop-head title (p. 2) is between ornamental rules and the page number is in rounded brackets.
Research by David Stoker suggests a general publication date range spanning from the 1770s to the 1780s for chapbooks bearing the "Aldermary Churchyard" and "Aldermary Churchyard, Bow Lane" imprints, with those bearing the street address "No. 4 Aldermary Churchyard" probably printed sometime after the mid 1770s.
Description
24 p. : ill. (woodcut) ; 16 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Henry Cunliffe; autograph of John Heaviside; from the Toovey collection.
Classification
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