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Elmina, or, The flower that never fades : a tale for young people : adorned with cuts.

Accession number
PML 80580
Creator
Masson, Charles François Philibert, 1762-1807.
Published
[New Haven, Conn.] : From Sidney's Press, New-Haven, 1809.
Credit line
Purchased on the Elisabeth Ball Fund, 1970.
Notes
Advertisement on p. [1] at end.
Alphabet on p. [4].
Attributed to Masson in Barbier, A.A. Ouvrages anonymes, v. 2, p. 62-63; Roscoe, S. Newbery, p. 181 cites a review in European Magazine (July 1797) attributing this work to Masson.
First and last leaves are pastedowns.
Illustrations are from the same blocks used by Babcock in an earlier ed. (PML 80468); they are copied, in reverse, from those in earlier Newbery ed. (e.g., PML 81075).
Pagination includes frontispiece.
Description
30, [2] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 11 cm
Provenance
From the Wilbur Macey Stone and Gillett Good Griffin collections.
Binding
Publisher's Dutch floral wrappers; in folder.
Classification
Department