Accession number:
PML 83027
Published:
[London] : Willm. Darton & Josh. Harvey, London, Decr. 31, 1799 [i.e., not before 1803]
Description:
LVI leaves of plates : all ill. (engravings) ; 16 cm
Credit:
Gift of Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes:
Apparently intended for publication with separate volumes of text and cards for teaching reading and spelling.
Drawn by Lady Fenn (Mrs. Lovechild).
Engraved throughout, printed on one side of the page only.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Probable title from 1810 ed. described in BM (compact ed.), vol. 15, p. 1219; also advertised in 1806 as: Lovechild's three hundred and thirty-six copperplate cuts ... and as Lovechild's douceurs.... Published in Philadelphia (l803) as The mother's remarks on a set of cuts for children. Cf. Welch.
Publication information from leaf I.
Binding:
Red morocco for Owen, with binder's title: Alphabet.
Variant Title:
Lovechild's douceurs
Provenance:
From the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.
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