Memoirs of a peg-top. By the author of Adventures of a pincushion

People / Organizations

• Mary Ann Kilner (Author)

Imprint

London: printed & sold by John Marshall No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane. & No. 17 Queen Street Cheapside, [1790?]

Added name

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.

Publication year

1790

ESTC No.

N10970

Grub Street ID

959

Description

90,[2]p. : ill. (metal cut, woodcuts) ; 12°.

Note

The author of Adventures of a pincushion = Mary Ann Kilner

Sometimes attributed to Dorothy Kilner

John Marshall at Queen-Street from 1789. Initially as "John Marshall and Co." until Nov. 1789 when the partnership was dissolved. Thereafter as "John Marshall". Cf. David Stoker. "John Marshall, John Evans and the Cheap Repository Tracts 1793-1800". Article pending publication, 2012

Advertisement for this title appears in The World, Thursday, December 30, 1790

The titlepage is engraved

The first letter of the title page epigraph beginning "Those trifles" is to the right of the end of the rule above; variant: the first letter is in line with the end of the rule

Below imprint: (Price six pence in gilt paper.); With a final advertisement leaf

For attribution see 'Book collector', v.18 (1969), p.519; for dating see Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., v.75 (1966), p.346

Signatures: [A]]2] B-H]6] I]2.

Uncontrolled note

For attribution see 'Book collector', v.18 (1969), p.519; for dating see Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., v.75 (1966), p.346. - In 6's, horizontal chain lines, 11.5 cm