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The courtship & marriage of Cock Robin, and Jenny Wren. : Illustrated with elegant engravings.
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 14717.
- Standardized Title:
- Cock Robin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Birds--Juvenile poetry.
- Birds.
- Weddings--Juvenile poetry.
- Weddings.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1808.
- Nursery rhymes -- 1808.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Fiction.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 13 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 13 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Published and sold wholesale, by Wm. Charles and may be had of all the [book]sellers, 1808. Price twenty-five cents.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Pictures with verse.
- Cover title.
- Based upon a London edition published by J. Harris in 1806 with title: The happy courtship, merry marriage, and pic nic dinner, of Cock Robin, and Jenny Wren.
- Probably engraved by William Charles. Not included in the list of chldren's books published or illustrated by William Charles in Harry B. Weiss' William Charles: early caricaturist, engraver and publisher of children's books (New York: New York Public Library, 1932).
- Picture captions: Robin in love. Courtship. Jenny's consent. Robin informs the cock. Proclaiming the marriage. The rook and lark. Going to church. Jenny and attendants. Robin and the bullfinch. General assemblage. Marriage ceremony. Ceremony continued. Putting on the ring.
- "Of Wm. Charles, may also be had, just published ... The court[ship] [a]nd marriage of Cock R[obin] [and] Jenny Wren. [Price] 25 [cents] 14 [no. of pictures]."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 14717).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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