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 Twelfth-day-gift, or, The grand exhibition : containing an account of a society of young gentlemen and ladies, who meet every Twelfth-day, to shew their improvement in learning, virtue, and happiness, and, by their example, endeavor to mend the world.

Accession number
PML 80114
Published
London : Printed and sold by John Marshall, No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard, [between 1787 and 1798].
Notes
Originally published by and frequently attributed to John Newbery (cf. Roscoe, S. Newbery, p. 265); Gumuchian, p. 199-200, attributes to Oliver Goldsmith.
Dated from publisher's address.
Wood engraved illustrations in text are from the same blocks used in Thomas Carnan ed. of 1788 (PML 81229); engraved frontispiece seems to be a copy, in reverse, of that in the same Carnan ed.
At foot of frontispiece: J. Piggot sculpt.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Description
[2], 143, [1] p. (the last p. blank), [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving, wood engravings) ; 17 cm.
Binding
Quarter brown calf (rebacked at PML), marbled boards.
Classification
Department