The swallow : a fiction : interspersed with poetry / by E.A. Kendal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendall, Edward Augustus, 1776?-1842, author.

Contributor:

Newbery, E. (Elizabeth), 1746-1821, bookseller.

Baylis, Thomas, printer.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Children.

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life.

Swallows--Juvenile fiction.

Swallows.

Birds--Juvenile fiction.

Birds.

Animal welfare--Juvenile fiction.

Animal welfare.

Nature stories.

Children's poetry.

Children--Conduct of life.

Natural history.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Howard, Albert A., -2017 (bookplate) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, [2], 157, [3] pages, [1] leaf of plates : 1 illustrations ; 14 cm (12mo)

Manufacture:

London : Printed ... by T. Baylis, Greville Stret, Hatton-Garden, 1800.

Fingerprint:

R.f. bym- ird; unIt (3) 1800 (A)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for E. Newbery, at the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard ..., 1800.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]² a-b⁴ B-O⁶ P².

Engraved plate: frontispiece illustration ("The bird's nest") dated Dec. 16, 1799.

Woodcut tail-pieces.

The last leaf bears a note on the migratory habits of swallows.

Local Notes:

Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from The Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts Company.

Singer-Mendenhall copy has has bookplate ("AHA") of Albert A. Howard on back pastedown.

Singer-Mendenhall copy bound in quarter olive parchment over marbled boards.

Cited in:

ESTC T147119

Osborne collection of early children's books, p. 272

Roscoe. John Newbery and his successors, J210

OCLC:

10828279