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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Mrs. Lovechild's golden present : for all good little boys and girls. Decorated with wood cuts.

Accession number
PML 88016.8
Creator
Lovechild, Mrs., 1743-1813.
Published
York : Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [ca. 1820]
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
One of 39 chapbooks bound in 3 volumes (PML 88014-16) with spine title: York chapbooks. 1/2 brown calf; marbled covers and end-papers; original chapbook wrappers bound in; the 3 volumes housed in paper slip case.
Lady Eleanor Fenn used the pseudonym Mrs. Lovechild.
Title and imprint on front wrapper in border of leaves.
Booklist on back wrapper: Penny books ... [includes Mrs. Lovechild's golden present]; 21 titles, ending with Robinson Crusoe.
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.
Includes 31 wood-engravings.
Frontispiece above verse which begins: "My little children, pray attend, / The admonitions of a friend ..."
Dated from booklist items listed in Opie, I. & P. Three centuries of nursery rhymes.
First and last leaves pasted down.
The letters "J" and "U" are missing from the alphabet.
Beginning of first sentence: "Mrs. Lovechild's compliments wait upon all her little friends and acquaintances ..."
Description
31, [1] p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Yellow printed wrappers.
Classification
Department