Hymns for Little Children
- Wraps
- New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. Very good. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case. Cover with a vignette of a plant, title page almost the same but the vignette is a palm tree. Pagination agrees with Welch: [1], [2-3], 4-26. [27-28], adv. list of books]. Cover soiled and rubbed, light age soiling to the text block but overall a very good copy. Contemporary ownership name of Bringhurst on the title page. Rare. Welch 439.1.
Details
Title
Hymns for Little Children
Author
Gilbert, Ann (née Ann Taylor)
Binding
Wraps
Condition
Very Good
Publisher
Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store: New-York
Date
1812
Edition
First edition