A natural history of british beasts and birds.
Derby.
Printed and published by Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]
31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
[Together with:] Select pieces for the nursery. Derby. Printed and published by Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
[And:] Nursery rhymes. Derby. Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
[And:] The history of john gilpin. Derby. Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
16mo. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Very. occasional chipping to margins.
[Together with:] Select pieces for the nursery. Derby. Printed and published by Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
[And:] Nursery rhymes. Derby. Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
[And:] The history of john gilpin. Derby. Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, [s.d., c.1830]. 31pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. With a woodcut frontispiece and numerous woodcut illustrations in the text.
16mo. Original publisher's pictorial yellow wrappers. A trifle rubbed and dust-soiled. Very. occasional chipping to margins.
A clutch of four extraordinarily scarce chapbooks from the three-penny 'Juvenile Library' series of Derby-based printer and publisher Thomas Richardson, including (the practically obligatory) anonymous adaptation of William Cowper’s (1731-1800) perennially popular comic ballad The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1782).
COPAC and OCLC combined record the first mentioned work at three locations (Morgan, Oxford, and Trinity College Dublin); the second mentioned at two locations (Princeton and V&A); the third at a single location (Princeton); and the fourth at three locations (California and Princeton, and Trinity College Dublin).
£ 950.00
Antiquates Ref: 26051
COPAC and OCLC combined record the first mentioned work at three locations (Morgan, Oxford, and Trinity College Dublin); the second mentioned at two locations (Princeton and V&A); the third at a single location (Princeton); and the fourth at three locations (California and Princeton, and Trinity College Dublin).
