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

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

The happy family, or, Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. Norton : intended to show the delightful effects of filial obedience.

Accession number
PML 81858
Published
London : Printed & sold by John Marshall & Co., no. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane & no. 17 Queen Street Cheapside, [ca. 1790].
Notes
Has been attributed to Mary Ann Kilner (CBEL), but is probably not her work: cf Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, no. 676.
Book list on p. [1]-[2] at end.
Dated from advertisement (for The juvenile magazine) in variant edition (PML 81856) and ms. inscription.
At foot of t.p.: Price 6d. in gilt paper, 9d. bound.
Engraved frontispiece and t.p. included in pagination.
Variant of PML 81856/57/59: all appear to have same setting of type, but reworked frontispieces and title pages, and different advertisements at end.
Description
x, 89, [3] p. : ill. (wood engravings, engravings) ; 13 cm.
Provenance
Ms. inscription on p. [1]: Alfred Manuel Decr. 8th, 1792.
Binding
Publisher's Dutch floral boards.
Classification
Department