The lady's valentine writer, or, Amatory banquet: consisting of chaste, elegant, serious, humorous, comic, & satirical love epistles, letters, answers, replies, &c. &c.: supposed to come from persons under various circumstances and situations in life. - Cruikshank, Robert; Hodgson & Co. (Publishers) (Frontispiece caption:Dream of happiness, 1824)
Hand-coloured frontispiece probably by Robert Cruikshank.
Title page and frontispiece only.CaQMM
"Sixpence."
Imprint date from frontispiece.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 in a collection of 57 title pages and frontispieces from 1820 to 1828 that represent a better technique than some earlier examples as the strong colours are not applied as carelessly as some of the earlier and cheaper booklets; accession number: 359087
Keywords: Chapbooks / Specimens.; Courtship.; Chapbooks / England / London / 19th century / rbgenr