• The happy family, or, Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. Norton : intended to show the delightful effects of filial obedience

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Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • Eng 18 26208
Extent:
  • x, 11-89, [3] p. : ill. (engravings) ; 12 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Dutch gilt papers
  • Inscriptions
  • Bookplates
  • Juvenile fiction
Description:
  • Engraved t.p., with conjugate front., both included in pagination.
  • "Price 6d in gilt paper -- 9d bound"--At foot of t.p.
  • Attribution to Mary Ann Kilner (cf. CBEL, v. 2, p. 558) questioned by Welch (cf. Amer. children's books, no. 676).
  • Note in auction catalogue notes that Marshall registered this work in 1786; date from ESTC, cited below.
  • Marshall active at Queen Street address beginning in 1790 (cf. Brown, London pubs.).
  • Publisher's advertisements on p. [2-3] at end; heading reads: Books, for the Instruction and Instruction [i.e. Amusement] of Young Minds, listing The happy family as the first item and The fairy spectator as the last item; latter published in 1789 (cf. OCLC).
  • This edition without the colophon on p. 89; p. [90] is blank.
  • Signatures: [A]² B-H⁶ I².
  • Cotsen c. 2: Imperfect, lacking last page of text (p. 89-[90] and last leaf with advertisements.
  • Cotsen c. 1: Inscriptions: "Mary Ann Burnes give (sic) by her Father and Mother, yr. Mach 21, 1837" on front pastedown; "M. Ellis, a gift, from mother, 1883" --In pencil, on p. [iv].
  • Cotsen c. 2: Inscribed horizontally on rear pastedown: "Mary Ann Harrison, her book, given her by Mary Booth".
  • Cotsen c. 1: Printed woman-on-the-moon bookplate of Marjorie Moon on front free endpaper recto.
Publisher:
  • London : Printed & sold by J. Marshall & Co., No. 4, Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow Lane & No. 17, Queen Street Cheapside, [1790?]
Subject:
  • Filial piety—Juvenile fiction
  • Obedience—Juvenile fiction
  • Children's stories, English
  • Dutch gilt papers
  • Inscriptions—19th century
  • Bookplates—20th century
Title sort:
  • happy family, or, Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. Norton : intended to show the delightful effects of filial obedience.
Alternative:
  • Memoirs of Mr. & Mrs. Norton
  • Memoirs of Mr. and Mrs. Norton
Created:
  • 1790-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1790
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/rr172536p
Location:
  • CTSN Eng 18 26208
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Contributor:
  • John Marshall and Co. (Booksellers : London, England)
References:
  • ESTC, N32877
Attributed name:
  • Kilner, Mary Ann, 1753-1831
Binding note:
  • Pub. Dutch paper boards.
  • Cotsen c. 1: Brown floral pattern.
  • Cotsen c. 2: Brown, yellow, and blue floral pattern.
  • Cotsen c. 1: Rebacked.
Provenance:
  • Cotsen c. 2: Tilson Collection.
Former owner:
  • Moon, Marjorie
  • Tilson, Diana R.