Accession number
PML 87408
Published
Wellington, Salop : Printed and sold by F. Houlston and Son, [ca. 182-]
Credit line
Bequest; Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Notes
"Ornamented with cuts."
"Price Two-Pence."
Publisher's advertisements on last leaf.
Sources vary on dating; probable date range of 1807-1840 for Houlston publications given in Osborne Coll. (p. 479), which also notes that imprints with "65 Paternoster Row, London" began appearing in 1828.
Library's copy has wood engraved illustrations colored by hand.
"Price Two-Pence."
Publisher's advertisements on last leaf.
Sources vary on dating; probable date range of 1807-1840 for Houlston publications given in Osborne Coll. (p. 479), which also notes that imprints with "65 Paternoster Row, London" began appearing in 1828.
Library's copy has wood engraved illustrations colored by hand.
Description
29, [3] p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 11 cm
Provenance
From the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial gray wrappers, with hand colored vignette, "Boy & fruit-woman" on front wrapper, and "A studious boy" on back.
Classification
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Department