Accession number
PML 83002
Creator
Elliott, Mary, 1794?-1870.
Published
[London : Published ... by Wm. Darton Junr. 58 Holborn Hill, June 15th, 1818, i.e. not before 1821].
Credit line
Gift; Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
At foot of cover title: Price sixpence.
Booklist on lower wrapper includes Coronation of George the Fourth, indicating book was issued 1821 or later.
Caption title.
Cover title: The poem of my sister : with coloured engravings.
Engraved throughout.
First line: Yet when I sought to kill a fly.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Imitation of: My mother / Ann Taylor Gilbert.
Imprint on leaf [5].
Probably from a single sheet that may also have been used for jigsaw puzzles: cf. Hannas, L. Eng. jigsaw puzzles, p. 124-5.
Booklist on lower wrapper includes Coronation of George the Fourth, indicating book was issued 1821 or later.
Caption title.
Cover title: The poem of my sister : with coloured engravings.
Engraved throughout.
First line: Yet when I sought to kill a fly.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
Imitation of: My mother / Ann Taylor Gilbert.
Imprint on leaf [5].
Probably from a single sheet that may also have been used for jigsaw puzzles: cf. Hannas, L. Eng. jigsaw puzzles, p. 124-5.
Description
[6] leaves : col. ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm
Provenance
Mary Granger, Nottingham, March 1824 (insc. on front fly leaf); from the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.
Binding
Maroon morocco, gilt; publisher's yellow printed wrappers bound in.
Classification
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Department