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The knight of the rose : an allegorical tale, designed for the amusement and moral instruction of youth / by Lucy Peacock.

Accession number
PML 83201
Creator
Peacock, Lucy.
Published
London : Printed for J. Johnson, and J. Harris ...; R. and L. Peacock...; C. Law ...; and B. Tabart ..., 1807.
Notes
First published in 1794.
From the advertisement: "Excess being the cause of many vices...she chose the destruction of that, as the principal work of her hero: borrowing the idea from the Second Book of Spenser's Faëry Queene."
"Printed by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden."
List of works for young people by the author on the verso of title.
The catalog of books for young people published by Baldwin, Cradock and Joy bound in at the end is watermarked 1819.
Description
[4], 240 p. + 22, [2] p. book list ; 18 cm
Binding
Contemporary sheep with engraved ticket for [S]impson Fancy Stationers, [No.?] Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, on the inside of the front board.
Classification
Department