EVES, Mrs. [of the Crescent School, Birmingham]. The Grammatical Play-Thing, or winter evening's recreation, for young ladies from four to twelve years old. Be merry and wise. Birmingham, printed at T. A. Pearsons Printing Office, High-Street, and sold by John Marshall...and L. B. Seeley, London. 1800. 8° (180 x 105mm). Collation: Π., A-E8 (A1:8 a doubleton incorporating errata and the text for p.65 misplaced within the first gathering instead of following E8). Original sheep with the remains of a hand-lettered label on back. -- The Juvenile Library...with prize productions of young students...Volume I. London: for R. Phillips, 1800. 12° 15 copper-plate engravings (one folding, one hand-coloured). Original boards (re-backed, with a new label). Mrs. Moon notes on a slip inserted in the second book that some of Mrs. Eves's Birmingham pupils were among the prize-winning students. -- The Adventures of a Silver Three-pence...adorned with cuts...[Bur]slem. Printed and sold by J. Tregortha n.d. [?1795]. 16° (98 x 64mm). Woodcut frontispiece and sixteen woodcuts, including 3 repeats (some tears and worming). Dutch flowered boards (faded). -- The Orphan; or the interesting life of little Fanny Fairchild...entirely designed for the amusement and instruction of the Lilliputian World. Exeter: printed by J. M'Kenzie and Son...1795.12° (117 x 76mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 13 woodcuts in text. (C4 mis-signed A4, C5 mis-signed C4 lacking A1 and C6:7). Dutch flowered boards (shabby). Provenance: Jenny Boundy Exeter 1805 [with rhyme]; Devon County Library, who presented the book to Mrs. Moon in gratitude for her work compiling a bibliography of their holdings in early children's books. A & M no.64. (4)

EVES, Mrs. [of the Crescent School, Birmingham]. The Grammatical Play-Thing, or winter evening's recreation, for young ladies from four to twelve years old. Be merry and wise. Birmingham, printed at T. A. Pearsons Printing Office, High-Street, and sold by John Marshall...and L. B. Seeley, London. 1800. 8° (180 x 105mm). Collation: Π., A-E8 (A1:8 a doubleton incorporating errata and the text for p.65 misplaced within the first gathering instead of following E8). Original sheep with the remains of a hand-lettered label on back. -- The Juvenile Library...with prize productions of young students...Volume I. London: for R. Phillips, 1800. 12° 15 copper-plate engravings (one folding, one hand-coloured). Original boards (re-backed, with a new label). Mrs. Moon notes on a slip inserted in the second book that some of Mrs. Eves's Birmingham pupils were among the prize-winning students. -- The Adventures of a Silver Three-pence...adorned with cuts...[Bur]slem. Printed and sold by J. Tregortha n.d. [?1795]. 16° (98 x 64mm). Woodcut frontispiece and sixteen woodcuts, including 3 repeats (some tears and worming). Dutch flowered boards (faded). -- The Orphan; or the interesting life of little Fanny Fairchild...entirely designed for the amusement and instruction of the Lilliputian World. Exeter: printed by J. M'Kenzie and Son...1795. 12° (117 x 76mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 13 woodcuts in text. (C4 mis-signed A4, C5 mis-signed C4 lacking A1 and C6:7). Dutch flowered boards (shabby). Provenance: Jenny Boundy Exeter 1805 [with rhyme]; Devon County Library, who presented the book to Mrs. Moon in gratitude for her work compiling a bibliography of their holdings in early children's books. A & M no.64. (4)

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EVES, Mrs. [of the Crescent School, Birmingham]. The Grammatical Play-Thing, or winter evening's recreation, for young ladies from four to twelve years old. Be merry and wise. Birmingham, printed at T. A. Pearsons Printing Office, High-Street, and sold by John Marshall...and L. B. Seeley, London. 1800. 8° (180 x 105mm). Collation: Π^., A-E⁸ (A1:8 a doubleton incorporating errata and the text for p.65 misplaced within the first gathering instead of following E8). Original sheep with the remains of a hand-lettered label on back. -- The Juvenile Library...with prize productions of young students...Volume I. London: for R. Phillips, 1800. 12° 15 copper-plate engravings (one folding, one hand-coloured). Original boards (re-backed, with a new label). Mrs. Moon notes on a slip inserted in the second book that some of Mrs. Eves's Birmingham pupils were among the prize-winning students. -- The Adventures of a Silver Three-pence...adorned with cuts...[Bur]slem. Printed and sold by J. Tregortha n.d. [?1795]. 16° (98 x 64mm). Woodcut frontispiece and sixteen woodcuts, including 3 repeats (some tears and worming). Dutch flowered boards (faded).
-- The Orphan; or the interesting life of little Fanny Fairchild...entirely designed for the amusement and instruction of the Lilliputian World. Exeter: printed by J. M'Kenzie and Son...1795.
12° (117 x 76mm). Woodcut frontispiece and 13 woodcuts in text. (C4 mis-signed A4, C5 mis-signed C4 lacking A1 and C6:7). Dutch flowered boards (shabby). Provenance: Jenny Boundy Exeter 1805 [with rhyme]; Devon County Library, who presented the book to Mrs. Moon in gratitude for her work compiling a bibliography of their holdings in early children's books. A & M no.64.
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