Front cover image for The Children's miscellany : in which is included The history of little Jack, by Thomas Day, esq

The Children's miscellany : in which is included The history of little Jack, by Thomas Day, esq

Print Book, English, 1797
New ed. embellished with twenty-eight cuts, by Bewick, and a frontispiece View all formats and editions
Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, London, 1797
children's books
v, 325, [3] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm (12mo)
1008413082
Originally published by John Stockdale in 1788; this enlarged ed. previously published 1790, cf. NCBEL II:423
Frontispiece engraved after M. Brown; woodcut illustrations by John Bewick, cf. Hugo, T. Bewick collector (suppl., 1970 ed.) no. 4090
Includes "The history of little Jack" by Thomas Day (p. 1-53), "The diverting history of John Gilpin" by William Cowper (p. 189-198), and "The history of Philip Quarll" by Peter Longueville (p. 215-325)
Integral publisher's ads [3] p. at end
Signatures: [A]p4p-p1s ( -A4, blank) B-Op1p2s Pp8s; [D4] signed C4, [H3] signed G3