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The Happy Family; or Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. Norton. Intended to show the delightful effects of filial obedience. London: printed & sold by J. Marshall & Co....n.d. [c.1786]. 12° in sixes (115 x 75mm). Last leaf advertisements, copper engraved title-page and frontispiece and sixteen framed wood engravings in the text. (Lacking endpapers; the front pastedown [before 1837] is taken from a copy of Marshall's The Village School). Floral embossed paper over boards, (spine repaired with matching paper). Housed in a brown linen case with marbled paper lining. Provenance: Mary Ann Barnes give by her Father and Mother March 21 1837; M. Ellis A gift from Mother 1883. Marshall entered this title at Stationers' Hall in 1786, just before opening his shop at the second, Queen Street, address. The title below is a sequel.
-- Mrs. Norton's Story Book, composed for the amusement of her children to which are added instructions for the proper application of the stories. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1790]. 12° in sixes (117 x 73mm). Copper engraved title-page and frontispiece (no free endpapers) and sixteen framed wood engravings in the text. Colour-dabbed paper over boards, (re-backed to match). Housed in a green linen case with marbled paper lining. Osborne II p.913. Not uniform in size or binding with The Happy Family, but with the same superior engraved prelims. Both books are illustrated in a style strongly resembling that of the trade engraving of John Bewick. (2)
-- Mrs. Norton's Story Book, composed for the amusement of her children to which are added instructions for the proper application of the stories. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1790]. 12° in sixes (117 x 73mm). Copper engraved title-page and frontispiece (no free endpapers) and sixteen framed wood engravings in the text. Colour-dabbed paper over boards, (re-backed to match). Housed in a green linen case with marbled paper lining. Osborne II p.913. Not uniform in size or binding with The Happy Family, but with the same superior engraved prelims. Both books are illustrated in a style strongly resembling that of the trade engraving of John Bewick. (2)