THE MOTHER'S GIFT. By A Lady.
Pp. 16 (including wrappers), illustrated with 12 woodcut vignettes plus a larger woodcut on the lower wrapper; 48mo; pale yellow self-wrappers, stabbed & tied, faintly faded and soiled, with early [York] bookseller's stamp ( J. H. Carr, printer & stationer, 31 Fossgate) on the upper wrapper, tiny split to top edge of lower wrapper; top fore-corners faintly creased; J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York, n.d.[c. 1820]. Gumuchian, 1577-1579; Meriton 740; Davis 42. *Collection of religious verses for children, beginning: 'What book ought I to love the best, And on its truth securely rest, The Bible', and ending with a full page woodcut illustration of children receiving instruction from a preacher in a pulpit. James Kendrew of York was one of the most prolific printers of chapbooks for children during the first decades of the nineteenth century. Item #150986
Price: $95.00