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Creator:
English, Harriet
Title(s):

Conversations and amusing tales : offered to the publick for the youth of Great Britain ...

Published/Created:
London : Printed for the author by Charles Clarke ..., published by Hatchard ..., and sold by Cadell and Davies ..., Egerton..., Faulder ..., Peacock ..., Newberry [sic] ..., and Darton and Harvey ..., 1799.
Physical Description:
[2], [v]-xi, [2], 385, [7] p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., music ; 25 cm. (4to)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4699 E65 C7 1799
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Dedication type-signed: Harriet English.
Frontispiece signed: W. Hamilton, R.A., and F. Bartolozzi.
Signatures: [pi]¹ a⁴ [chi]¹ A-Z⁴ Aa-Zz⁴ 3A-3C⁴.
English short title catalogue, T34058
Roscoe, S. John Newbery, J101
Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, II, 884
Gumuchian & cie. Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 2414
Includes music: Address to the British Fair, [by S. Webbe according to Osborne cited above], [2] leaves of plates following p. 385.
List of subscribers, [7] p. at end.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 439
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Bound in blind- and gold-tooled calf; marbled endpapers. Bookplate: William Selby Church.
Subject Terms:
Children's stories.
Church, William Selby -- Bookplate.
Clarke, Charles -- Printer.
Engraving -- Specimens -- 1799.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1799.
Contributors:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, engraver.
Hamilton, William, 1751-1801, ill.
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