Moral tales in verse :
calculated to please and instruct young children : embellished with numerous engravings.

Description

Related Names

Hodgson & Co. (Publishers)

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, no. 10, Newgate-Street, [between 1822 and 1824]

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Conduct of life > Conduct of life / Juvenile poetry.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / London > Chapbooks / England / London / 19th century

Note

Includes 34 woodcuts.
First sentence: "I remember, dear patron, those sad gloomy days, When I wander'd forlorn and unknown, When rude was my speech, and unpolish'd my ways, None kindly corrected, nor cheer'd me with praise, But left me in darkness to moan."
Publisher's printed brown stiff wrappers; vignette on upper wrapper; publisher's ad, p. [4] of wrappers.
Osborne Coll., cited below, dates as 1825.
BM, cited below, dates as 1830.
Hodgson conducted business at 10 Newgate Street from 1822-1824; cf. Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 91.
Frontispiece included in pagination.
"Sixpence."
Wood engravings: frontispiece, illustrations, and title vignette.

Physical Description

34 p. : ill. (wood-engravings) ; 14 x 9 cm.

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