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[KILNER, Mary Ann (1753-1831). Memoirs of a Peg-Top...London: printed and sold by John Marshall and Co....n.d. [c.1782].
12° in sixes (113 x 80mm). Wood engraved frontispiece within a decorated ruled frame, matched on the letterpress title-page, and 25 framed wood engravings in text. Bright Dutch flowered paper over boards, housed in a blue linen case lined with marbled paper. Provenance: the Kilner family.
Entered at Stationers' Hall on 2 March, 1782 this near-mint copy of an early (?first) printing comes from a collection that remained in the Kilner family until 1988.
12° in sixes (113 x 80mm). Wood engraved frontispiece within a decorated ruled frame, matched on the letterpress title-page, and 25 framed wood engravings in text. Bright Dutch flowered paper over boards, housed in a blue linen case lined with marbled paper. Provenance: the Kilner family.
Entered at Stationers' Hall on 2 March, 1782 this near-mint copy of an early (?first) printing comes from a collection that remained in the Kilner family until 1988.