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WATTS, Isaac (1674-1748). Divine Songs, attempted in easy language, for the use of children...Adorned with elegant woodcuts, by T. Bewick of Newcastle...York: printed by T. Wilson and R. Spence...1802. 16° (112 x 77mm) 38 wood-engravings in the text including 3 repeats. Original marbled paper over boards, recently re-backed. Provenance: Hester Rich 1804; Edmund J. Gregory. The Bewick cuts were probably those done for Saint in 1778-9, eventually finding their way to York after the closure of Hall and Elliott's businesses in 1795. Pafford, probably B80; see A & M no.122. -- The Sugar-Plumb; or sweet amusement for leisure hours...to which is added the history of Mr. Ashfield. Embellished with elegant cuts. London: printed for A. Millar, W. Law, and R. Cater; and for T. Wilson and R. Spence, York. n.d. [c.1795]. 16° (112 x 83mm). A framed wood engraving at the head of each of the 13 stories (lacking frontispiece ?; lower two-thirds of final leaf removed and replaced by an extraneous decorated "Finis" motif from another source). Dutch flowered boards, housed in a green linen case, lined with marbled paper (binding used, with a replaced back and ms. label dating the book c.1804; lacking free endpapers). Originally published by John Newbery's nephew in 1771 (see J 345), and here put out by the York publishers with a spurious London imprint. (2)