La petite rapporteuse.*...*The telltale
by ELLIOTT, Marie
- Used
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Londres [i.e. London]: Chez William Darton, [s.d., c.1825] 36pp. With a folding engraved frontispiece, and two further engraved plates. Original publisher's printed stiff buff wrappers. A trifle rubbed, marked, and dusty. Frontispiece a little creased, very occasional spotting. The first edition in French of prolific Darton author Mary Elliott's (née Belson) (c.1794-1870) The Tell-tale, in which a young girl, Martha, who always gossips about the faults of others, is shunned by her school- mates. She mends her ways only when she nearly brings a poor boy to disaster after she accuses him of being a thief, when in actuality he has merely misplaced a shilling with which he had been entrusted. As with many of Elliot's tales, the book is designed to show how a trivial incident in a child's life may have far more important, or indeed catastrophic, implications then it would initially appear. OCLC records copies at seven locations (BL, California, Harvard, Miami, Oxford, Toronto, and V&A); COPAC adds no further. Darton H486 (1), Moon, The children's books of Mary (Belson) Elliot, 447.. First edition in French. 12mo.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Antiquates Ltd (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- AQ21704
- Title
- La petite rapporteuse.*...*The telltale
- Author
- ELLIOTT, Marie
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition in French
- Publisher
- Chez William Darton, [s.d., c.1825]
- Place of Publication
- Londres [i.e. London]
- Keywords
- Children's
- Size
- 12mo
Terms of Sale
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Concentrating on hand-press printing and early modern manuscripts, we pride ourselves on offering a varied selection of antiquarian works on a diverse range of subjects, leaning towards the interesting, the important, and the unusual.
We have a countryside bookshop in Wareham; we also regularly issue catalogues - do ask if you would like to be added to our mailing list - and frequently exhibit at regional and national book fairs in London, Bristol, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Oxford, and York.
We also offer a valuation service (for either insurance or probate purposes), as well as advice on library development.
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Antiquates Ltd
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Wareham, Dorset
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- Wrappers
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- 12mo
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- First Edition
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