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TRIAL AND EXECUTION OF THE SPARROW FOR KILLING COCK ROBIN

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Publisher Location:
Holborn Hill, London
Year Published:
1820
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Inventory No:
034632

Condition

Overall:
Very Good
Dust jacket:
No Dust Jacket
Binding:
Paperback
Size:
16mo

£585.00

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no date circas 1820 (The watermarks fall on the edge of a couple of pages and are incomplete but appear to read 1820), unpaginated [32], sewn binding, 16 copper engraved plates, some with contemporary hand-colouring. Original printed (engraved) wrappers, good with some general wear and rubbing, wear to head and tail of spine, corners, dust soiling, loss of surface to top right corner of front cover, but not affecting image or title. Contents good, contemporary signature to verso of front cover, some general reading wear, a few short peripheral tears including to the gutter of the last plate at lower point of stitching, lower corners folded over. A good to very good, complete copy. A very scarce early children's book. Copac lists only one copy - in the British Library. Regarding the date, whilst this copy would appear to date from around 1820, other copies with identical plates have earlier watermarks dating to around 1815.

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