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The life and perambulation of a mouse : in two volumes ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR4839.K39 L54 1790 v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kilner, Dorothy, 1755-1836, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.
- Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Early works.
- Booksellers' catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 13 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- P.s, y,th reh, asla (7) 1790 (Q) v.1
- che. lden ckut wami (7) 1790 (Q) v.2
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed & sold by John Marshall, no. 4 Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane & no. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside, [1790?]
- Notes:
- Dedication in volume 2 signed and dated: M.P. April 13, 1784. (M.P. is M. Pelham, the pseudonym of Dorothy Kilner. See ESTC.)
- Signatures: volume 1: A-G⁶ H² ; volume 2: A-G⁶ H1.
- Pagination: volume 1: [1], vi-xi, [2], 14-91, [1] pages, [2] leaves of plates ; volume 2: [3], viii-xii, [1], 14-84, [6] pages, [2] leaves of plates.
- Each volume has engraved frontispiece and title leaf.
- Woodcut illustrations.
- Catchword on page 15 of volume 1: colours.
- "(Price Sixpence in Gilt Paper.)"--Title leaf of each volume.
- "Books, for the Instruction and Amusement of Young Minds, Printed and Sold by John Marshall No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside; and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London.": Volume 2, pages [85]-[90].
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume has manuscript note ("Rebacked and new endpapers 12/65") in pencil on front pastedown.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2023 from Amanda Hall Rare Books.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: each volume bound in contemporary Dutch floral boards (rebacked and with new endpapers).
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: volume 1: leaf H2 mounted on a blank leaf.
- Bookseller's description on file, 2024.
- Cited in:
- ESTC T92772
- English Short Title Catalog, T92773.
- OCLC:
- 1408420854
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