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Memoirs of the little man and the little maid : with some interesting particulars of their lives : never before published.
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Published by B. Tabart at the Juvenile and School Library, No. 157 New Bond-Street, 1807 ([London] : Printed by C. Squire, Furnival's-Inn-Court, Holborn).
Description
[2], 12, [2] p., XII leaves of plates : col. ill. (stipple engravings), music ; 13 cm.
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
26470 Eng 18
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Subject(s)
Marriage
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Juvenile poetry
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Courtship
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Juvenile poetry
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Publisher
Tabart, Benjamin, 1767 or 1768-1833
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Printer
Squire, Charles (Printer)
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Attributed name
Sedley, Charles, Sir, 1639?-1701
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Sedley, Charles, Sir, Baronet, approximately 1721-1778
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Former owner
Moon, Marjorie
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Tillson, Diana R.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Poetry
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Rare books genre
Nursery rhymes
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Printed wrappers (Binding)
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19th century
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1807
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19th century
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Notes
Printer from t.p. verso.
"Wooed" misprinted as "woed" on p. 1 (l. 2).
Publisher's catalog on [2] p. at end listing 24 numbered titles.
Illustrations: 12 hand-colored stipple engravings, dated May 1807 by B. Tabart, facing the corresponding pages in the text.
Plate [VI] misnumbered as IV.
An extended version of the nursery rhyme attributed to Sir Charles Sedley, or to his great grand-son of the same name, by Horace Walpole (cf. Opie, Oxford dic. of nursery rhymes, 326).
Princeton copy 1 Lacks pub. t.p., but has later hand-written (by Moon?) t.p. and half-t.p. leaves bound in, with text on rectos only.
Princeton copy 1 "This is the 1st edition, without music, which was added later. These plates, dated May 1807, were probably published before the edition with plates dated March 1807"--Moon's penciled note on front free endpaper.
Princeton copy 2 "Ellen Merriman Lewis"--Inscribed on t.p.
Princeton copy 1 Marjorie Moon's woman-in-the-moon bookplate on front pastedown.
Princeton copy 3 From the Diana R. Tillson Collection, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950.
Princeton copy 1 Webb sale, 1967.
Princeton copy 2 Pub. tan wrappers, lower ill. with cut of Tabart's shop.
Princeton copy 1 Lacks pub. wrappers; bound into later stiff, cloth-covered salmon wrappers, with hand-lettered label, within a later marbled-paper slipcase.
Princeton copy 2 Later spine tape repair of original wrappers; within a later marbled-paper slipcase.
Princeton copy 3 Together with Moon's hand-lettered envelope, photograph of her framed presentation of Cotsen 27471, and explanatory leaf from an exhibition.
References
Moon, M. Tabart's juvenile library, 109 (1), appendix D (III)
Alderson & Moon, Childhood re-collected, 97
Osborne coll., p. 100
Other title(s)
Authentic memoirs of the little man and the little maid
Little man and little maid
OCLC
240891246
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