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Finch (Charlotte): The Gamut and Time-Table in verse. For the Instruction of Children, bound in 18, Dean and Munday, [n.d. but c. 1825] [Gumuchian 2536; Osborne p.121], printed on one side only of each leaf, hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece and eleven half-page illustrations, five full-page examples of musical notation (margins slightly soiled), original grey paper wrappers (somewhat soiled, backstrip slightly split) -- [Johnson (Richard)]: The Youthful Jester; or, Repository of Wit and Innocent Amusement, 16mo., for E.Newbery by J.Crowder, 1800 [Roscoe J395(4); cf.Gumuchian 5871 (1804 ed.); cf.Osborne p.271 (undated edition)], woodcut frontispiece and 12 illustrations, original Dutch floral-paper boards (somewhat soiled, backstrip worn); and another early children's book. (3)

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Finch (Charlotte): The Gamut and Time-Table in verse. For the Instruction of Children, bound in 18, Dean and Munday, [n.d. but c. 1825] [Gumuchian 2536; Osborne p.121], printed on one side only of each leaf, hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece and eleven half-page illustrations, five full-page examples of musical notation (margins slightly soiled), original grey paper wrappers (somewhat soiled, backstrip slightly split) -- [Johnson (Richard)]: The Youthful Jester; or, Repository of Wit and Innocent Amusement, 16mo., for E.Newbery by J.Crowder, 1800 [Roscoe J395(4); cf.Gumuchian 5871 (1804 ed.); cf.Osborne p.271 (undated edition)], woodcut frontispiece and 12 illustrations, original Dutch floral-paper boards (somewhat soiled, backstrip worn); and another early children's book. (3)

Lot Essay

Mrs. Trimmer advised that the second work be committed to the flames (she took exception to the jests against the clergy and professional men). The first work 'is an admirable and amusing book to teach children, the theory of music.' (Gumuchian)

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