THE JUVENILE ALBUM, or tales from far and near.
Illustrated with eight steel engravings by T. Woolnoth. Pp. [iv]+70+[2](advertisements), frontispiece and 7 plates with tissue guards; demy 4to; dull green ribbed cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt & blind, lightly flecked and worn, corners bruised, the spine a trifle chipped at extremities; a.e.g.; text block slightly browned, hinges starting, several tape repairs to small edge splits or tears, scattered light foxing and soiling; Ackerman and Co., London, n.d.[c. 1841]. First Edition? *English naturalist and author Sarah Bowditch Lee (1791-1856) originally published as Mrs. Bowditch, her first married name. Born Sarah Wallis, she married the naturalist Thomas Edward Bowditch in 1813. In 1826, two years after Bowditch's death, she married Robert Lee, and thereafter published under the name Mrs. R. Lee. The portrait painter and engraver Thomas A. Woolnoth (1785-1857) was well known for his theatrical portraits. He contributed both drawings and engravings for The Juvenile Album. Woolnoth was Engraver in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, and exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1842 onwards. Item #136737
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