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The history of Whittington and his cat : with three copper-plates.

Accession number
PML 83170
Published
London : Printed for Tabart and co. ... ; and to be had of all booksellers, 1804.
Notes
Ads on verso of title page and rear wrapper.
Advertisement for this book as part of series Popular stories (in True history of a little old Woman. Tabart, 1806), identifies the illustrators as [W.M.] Craig and [Richard?] Corbould.
At foot of title: Price Sixpence.
On verso of title: R. Taylor, Printer, Black Horse Court.
Plates dated July, 1804.
Series editor previously thought to be William Godwin, but more likely was Mary Jane Godwin, his 2nd wife. See P. Marshall's biography of Godwin, p. 265.
Watermark: 1804.
Description
36 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Plates are hand colored.
Provenance
In ms. on front wrapper: Charles Hurt junr. Wirksworth, 1806.
Binding
Publisher's stiff blue printed wrappers; in folder.
Classification
Department