Accession number
PML 81388
Published
London : John Harris ... , [between 1830 and 1836]
Credit line
Gift; Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
Spine and cover title: Peter Piper.
Dated from Moon and printer's address.
Illustrations are printed from the same blocks used in earlier Harris ed. (e.g., PML 81389, 81390, 85338); here they are set within a single-line border.
On t.p. verso and p. 34: ... Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Publisher's book list of 64 items on p. [1] at end.
Pagination includes ornamental frontispiece.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Dated from Moon and printer's address.
Illustrations are printed from the same blocks used in earlier Harris ed. (e.g., PML 81389, 81390, 85338); here they are set within a single-line border.
On t.p. verso and p. 34: ... Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street.
Publisher's book list of 64 items on p. [1] at end.
Pagination includes ornamental frontispiece.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Description
34, [2] pages (the last page blank) : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 18 cm
Provenance
Owner's inscription, "Maria Blake"; from the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.
Summary
Twenty four tongue twisters, corresponding to letters of the alphabet; each with an illustration.
Binding
Green morocco, stamped and gilt for Owen. Publisher's brown diaper-grain embossed, gilt cloth covers, with yellow endpapers, bound in.
Classification
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Department