[FENN, Ellenor, Lady (1743-1813)]. The Fairy Spectator, or the juvenile monitor by Mrs. Teachwell and her family. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1802]. 12° (154 x 94mm). Collation: A-G6 in a single gathering. Copper engraved frontispiece. Original speckled blue paper boards with an oval engraved title label on front (re-sewn, with slivers of material from the original lining loosely inserted). Provenance: Harrison 1808; Mildred Greenhill (book label). Entered at Stationers' Hall on 11 June 1789, Fenn's text is here reprinted with its original date omitted from the dedicatory letter. Its paper is watermarked 1802 and it is bound in a style which Marshall adopted for his books in the early 1800's. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. Fables by Mrs. Teachwell...London: printed by and for John Marshall...n.d. [c.1789]. 12° in sixes (155 x 90mm). 17 oval wood engravings, heading each fable. Marbled boards (worn, re-backed with no rear end paper). A & M no.105. Designed as an "extended reader" based upon Fables in Monosyllables (below) and here containing Lady Fenn's "Address to Mothers" which is an earnest puff for her own books. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. Fables in Monosyllables, by Mrs. Teachwell. Book I. To which are added the morals in dialogues between a mother and her children. Adorned with cuts. London: printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy...N. Hailes...and John Marshall, Fleet Street. 1823. 24° (?) (135 x 84mm). Baldwin advertisements on the last four pages. 32 framed wood engravings in text, including repeats. Modern half morocco, marbled paper sides with morocco gilt titling label on front. Provenance: Butliss (?) Dickins from his Grandfather Sept. 18.h 1841. A late reprint of the fables and separate morals which were given in polysyllablic form in the previous item. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. School Occurences: supposed to have arisen among a set of young ladies under the tuition of Mrs. Teachwell. And to be recorded by one of them. Third edition. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1796]. 12° in sixes (158 x 95mm). (Scribbles on title-page). Original sheep-backed marbled boards (spine cracking, lacking free end papers). Provenance: Rebecca Davies; Book. Crickhowell. March 14, 1798. Third edition of the book with which Lady Fenn first established her place as Marshall"s leading didactic writer for children. -- And six others including Lady Fenn's Child's Grammar c.1785 in Dutch flowered paper and her Cobwebs to Catch Flies 2 Volumes in I, 1822, and John Marshall's Juvenile Magazine July-December, 1788. (10)

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[FENN, Ellenor, Lady (1743-1813)]. The Fairy Spectator, or the juvenile monitor by Mrs. Teachwell and her family. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1802]. 12° (154 x 94mm). Collation: A-G6 in a single gathering. Copper engraved frontispiece. Original speckled blue paper boards with an oval engraved title label on front (re-sewn, with slivers of material from the original lining loosely inserted). Provenance: Harrison 1808; Mildred Greenhill (book label). Entered at Stationers' Hall on 11 June 1789, Fenn's text is here reprinted with its original date omitted from the dedicatory letter. Its paper is watermarked 1802 and it is bound in a style which Marshall adopted for his books in the early 1800's. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. Fables by Mrs. Teachwell...London: printed by and for John Marshall...n.d. [c.1789]. 12° in sixes (155 x 90mm). 17 oval wood engravings, heading each fable. Marbled boards (worn, re-backed with no rear end paper). A & M no.105. Designed as an "extended reader" based upon Fables in Monosyllables (below) and here containing Lady Fenn's "Address to Mothers" which is an earnest puff for her own books. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. Fables in Monosyllables, by Mrs. Teachwell. Book I. To which are added the morals in dialogues between a mother and her children. Adorned with cuts. London: printed for Baldwin, Cradock and Joy...N. Hailes...and John Marshall, Fleet Street. 1823. 24° (?) (135 x 84mm). Baldwin advertisements on the last four pages. 32 framed wood engravings in text, including repeats. Modern half morocco, marbled paper sides with morocco gilt titling label on front. Provenance: Butliss (?) Dickins from his Grandfather Sept. 18.h 1841. A late reprint of the fables and separate morals which were given in polysyllablic form in the previous item. -- [Lady Ellenor FENN]. School Occurences: supposed to have arisen among a set of young ladies under the tuition of Mrs. Teachwell. And to be recorded by one of them. Third edition. London: printed and sold by John Marshall...n.d. [c.1796]. 12° in sixes (158 x 95mm). (Scribbles on title-page). Original sheep-backed marbled boards (spine cracking, lacking free end papers). Provenance: Rebecca Davies; Book. Crickhowell. March 14, 1798. Third edition of the book with which Lady Fenn first established her place as Marshall"s leading didactic writer for children. -- And six others including Lady Fenn's Child's Grammar c.1785 in Dutch flowered paper and her Cobwebs to Catch Flies 2 Volumes in I, 1822, and John Marshall's Juvenile Magazine July-December, 1788.
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