A new history of england, from the earliest period to the present time; on a plan recommended by the earl of chesterfield...
Dublin.
Printed at the Hibernia Press Office, 1817.
New edition.
12mo.
338pp. With an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled paper boards, ruled and lettered in gilt. Heavily rubbed. Book-label of the Dublin Juvenile Library to FEP, early ownership inscriptions of John McKenney to FFEP and head of title, frontispiece partially traced over, pen-trials to terminal page, scattered spotting.
An apparently unrecorded Irish edition of an immensely popular introduction to English history via the most influential of her monarchs.
First published by F. Newbery in 1775, the work reached 11 editions by the turn of the century. The book is commonly attributed to hack-writer and compiler of numerous Newbery publications, Richard Johnson (1733/34-1793), whose name is frequently connected with the alias of the Reverend Mr. Cooper; however, his contribution has been called in the question by recent scholarship, with Roscoe (with reference to Weedon’s Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery) going so far as to doubt his involvement entirely.
The Dublin Juvenile Library was established at 43 Lower Sackville Street sometime around 1796.
First published by F. Newbery in 1775, the work reached 11 editions by the turn of the century. The book is commonly attributed to hack-writer and compiler of numerous Newbery publications, Richard Johnson (1733/34-1793), whose name is frequently connected with the alias of the Reverend Mr. Cooper; however, his contribution has been called in the question by recent scholarship, with Roscoe (with reference to Weedon’s Richard Johnson and the Successors to John Newbery) going so far as to doubt his involvement entirely.
The Dublin Juvenile Library was established at 43 Lower Sackville Street sometime around 1796.
cf. Roscoe J84.
£ 125.00
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