Accession number
PML 87444
Published
Philadelphia : Published by Jacob Johnson ... , 1802.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
23 illustrations on an engraved title-page and eleven plates (1).
Games consist of swinging, seesaw, making a snowman, shooting a bow and arrow, flying a kite, spinning tops, dressing dolls, rolling hoops, skipping, skating, playing ball, blindman's buff, cricket, marbles, etc.
Publisher's advertisements on one unnumbered page following text.
Title vignette.
Variant of Welch 1469 without the colophon, who locates only three copies, two of them imperfect. Shaw 3605 locates another).
Games consist of swinging, seesaw, making a snowman, shooting a bow and arrow, flying a kite, spinning tops, dressing dolls, rolling hoops, skipping, skating, playing ball, blindman's buff, cricket, marbles, etc.
Publisher's advertisements on one unnumbered page following text.
Title vignette.
Variant of Welch 1469 without the colophon, who locates only three copies, two of them imperfect. Shaw 3605 locates another).
Description
59 p., 11 plates : 23 ill. ; 14 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary marbled wrappers. First three pages with mended tear-offs. In a rust cloth folding wrap case by J.P.W.
Classification
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