Cottage tales for little people, or, The amusing repository for all good boys and girls.

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:Glasgow : Published and sold wholesale, by Lumsden & Son, [between 1815 and 1820]
Description:32 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm.
Language:English
Series:Lumsden & Son's juvenile library
Lumsden & Son's juvenile library.
Subject:Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Chapbooks.
Conduct of life.
Juvenile works.
Specimens.
Format: Print Book
Local Note:Bound with: Winlove, Mrs. The rise of learning, or Groundwork of Science. Glasgow: Lumsden, [1810].
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12005541
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Varying Form of Title:Amusing repository for all good boys and girls
Other authors / contributors:Bewick, John, 1760-1795.
Bewick, Thomas, 1753-1828.
James Lumsden & Son, publisher.
Provenance:Former owner's armorial bookplate: R. Basil Cane.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco over boards; gold tooling; gilt dentelles; original wrappers bound in; marbled endpapers.
Notes:"[Price twopence.]."
Approximate date from Roscoe, cited below.
Series statement from publisher's wrappers.
Woodcuts: title page vignette, text illustrations; attributed to John or Thomas Bewick; cf. Hugo, cited below.
" ... woodcuts ... ape John Bewick, but are hardly good enough for Lee"--Roscoe.
Prefatory "Address" in verse: p. [2].
First sentence: "Little Elizabeth had four sisters who were all older than herself."
Includes 9 woodcuts.
Roscoe, S. Lumsden, 59
Hugo, T. Bewick, 319
Standard no.:PML 252761.1 JPW 8540

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