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NEWMAN, A.K., publisher. The Flower-Basket; or Poetical Blossoms: Original Nursery Rhymes and Tales. By the Author of Adventures of a Field Mouse, Lessons for the Nursery Tell-Tale, &c. London: A.K. Newman, [ca 1820?].
16o (167 x 99 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece and 14 wood engravings in text, all with publisher's hand coloring. Original printed blue wrappers; quarter roan folding case.
Writing of the publisher, Alderson & Oyens note: "Anthony King Newman, son of Charles Newman, gentleman, of Penryn, Cornwall, was apprenticed to William Lane at the Minerva Press in Leadenhall Street from 1794-1801... Newman succeeded to the Minerva Press about 1804, some ten years before Lane's death. The proximity of the Minerva Press to the printing houses of the Baileys and Dean & Mundy may account for the cooperative venture between Newman and the more recently established firm..." (Alderson & Oyens 220).
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Writing of the publisher, Alderson & Oyens note: "Anthony King Newman, son of Charles Newman, gentleman, of Penryn, Cornwall, was apprenticed to William Lane at the Minerva Press in Leadenhall Street from 1794-1801... Newman succeeded to the Minerva Press about 1804, some ten years before Lane's death. The proximity of the Minerva Press to the printing houses of the Baileys and Dean & Mundy may account for the cooperative venture between Newman and the more recently established firm..." (Alderson & Oyens 220).