Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
English, Harriet
Title:
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

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. | Clarke, Charles -- Printer. | Church, William Selby -- Bookplate. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1799.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1799.
Contributors:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727–1815, engraver. | Hamilton, William, 1751–1801, ill.