Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children
by (Chap Book)
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- Seller
-
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Irongate, Derby: J. Drewry, 1790. Wraps. Fine. 12mo. 16pp. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Self wrappers. Likely the first edition. Uncut and unbound: A single sheet printed on both sides, folded for binding, but never cut or bound. Rare in this condition.
Osborne ascribed a date of c. 1790, a similar book under the same title was printed in the United States by Isaiah Thomas, 1794 (Welch, #173). Osborne. p. 3.
In fine condition with only a trace of aging. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thorn Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19092
- Title
- Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children
- Author
- (Chap Book)
- Format/Binding
- Wraps
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- J. Drewry
- Place of Publication
- Irongate, Derby
- Date Published
- 1790
- Bookseller catalogs
- Rare Books;
Terms of Sale
Thorn Books
All books returnable for any reason within seven days, providing only that they are received in the same condition as shipped. Shipments to an Arizona address must add appropriate sales tax. Libraries billed.
About the Seller
Thorn Books
Biblio member since 2003
Tucson, Arizona
About Thorn Books
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...