The child's New-Years-gift, or, A collection of chaste & significant riddles, upon the most familiar subjects : recommended to all kind mothers as an instructive & entertaining companion for their children

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Full imprint from ESTC's transcription of Hodges' imprint used on other titles; Princeton copy trimmed at bottom of page after the words "at the..."
Thirty riddles, including abridgments of some by Swift, on subjects such as the letter M, louse, needle, oyster, backside, stays, fart, wind, a shadow, and a paper kite.
Pages 5-64 in red on recto and black on verso; one side of the sheet printed in black, the other side in red.
Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece, depicting fashionable children playing a riddle game, with black and red full and half-page engravings throughout.
Princeton copy 1: Inscribed (upside down) on front free endpaper (frontispiece recto): "Ann Sayer, her book, given her by Docr. Sam Shepherd, 12 March, 1750"; above that is a struck-out inscription at head of the page: "Given to Mary Sayer by Doctor Samuel Shepherd, 12 March, 1750."
Princeton copy 1: Inscribed on blank page [4]: "Mary Sayer, her book, Aug 30, 1768," and below that, "Buy thou the truth, and sell it not."

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London : Printed for & sold by I. Hodges at the Looking-Glass on London-Bridge, [not after 1750]

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child's New-Years-gift, or, A collection of chaste & significant riddles, upon the most familiar subjects : recommended to all kind mothers as an instructive & entertaining companion for their children.

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