Accession number
PML 83027
Creator
Lovechild, Mrs., 1743-1813.
Published
[London] : Willm. Darton & Josh. Harvey, London, Decr. 31, 1799 [i.e., not before 1803]
Credit line
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.
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.
Description
LVI leaves of plates : all ill. (engravings) ; 16 cm
Provenance
From the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.
Binding
Red morocco for Owen, with binder's title: Alphabet.
Classification
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Department