The holiday present. Containing anecdotes of Mr. and Mrs. Jennet, and their little family, viz. Master George, Master Charles, Master Thomas, Miss Maria, Miss Charlotte, and Miss Harriot. Interspersed with instructive and amusing stories and observations

People / Organizations

• Dorothy Kilner (Author)

Imprint

London: printed and sold by J. Marshall and Co. No. 4, in Aldermary Church Yard, Bow Lane, [between 1781 and 1783]

Added name

John Marshall and Co. (Booksellers : London, England), printer, bookseller.

Publication year

1781-1783

ESTC No.

T200167

Grub Street ID

231917

Description

108 p. : ill. ; 18°.

Note

Dedication signed: M. P., i.e. M. Pelham, the pseudonym of Dorothy Kilner, and dated: Hampstead, Jan. 23, 1781

British Library copy has ms. inscription on first free endpaper from back "John Gallop 24th June 1783"

Reviewed in 'The Monthly Review', 1785

Below imprint in square brackets: Price Six Pence

With a frontispiece illustration

Signatures: A-I]6.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis = ill