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Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons : consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions and queries : intended to gratify the mental taste, and to exercise the ingenuity of all sensible masters and misses

Title
Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons : consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions and queries : intended to gratify the mental taste, and to exercise the ingenuity of all sensible masters and misses / by an old friend.
Author
Old Friend, active 19th century
Publication
London : Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile & School Library ..., 1807

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Additional Authors
  • Squire, Charles, printer
  • Tabart and Co. bsl
  • Children's Room Collection
Description
vi, 186, [6] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 14 cm.
Subject
  • Riddles, Juvenile
  • Charades
  • Rebuses
Genre/Form
  • Rebuses.
  • Riddles.
  • Charades.
  • Juvenile literature – England – London – 1807.
Note
  • Printer's name from verso t.p.
  • Frontispiece has imprint: London : Publish'd Dec. 25, 1804 by Tabart & Co.
  • Publisher's advertisement on six unnumbered pages following text.
Indexed In (note)
  • Osborne Coll.
  • Opie
Provenance (note)
  • Inscribed: several inscriptions on front pastedown, scratched out or torn off; "John Fitch, Filey, 1859," in ink on lower pastedown, and "John Fitch, 18[ink blot]," on lower free end leaf.
Binding (note)
  • Bound in quarter red leather with marbled paper boards.
Local note
  • Copy in *KH lacks the frontispiece.
Call Number
*KH 1807 Old 11-63
OCLC
589855794
Author
Old Friend, active 19th century.
Title
Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons : consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions and queries : intended to gratify the mental taste, and to exercise the ingenuity of all sensible masters and misses / by an old friend.
Imprint
London : Printed for Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile & School Library ..., 1807 ([London] : Squire, printer)
Edition
A new edition.
Indexed In:
Osborne Coll. I:223
Opie K 49
Provenance
Inscribed: several inscriptions on front pastedown, scratched out or torn off; "John Fitch, Filey, 1859," in ink on lower pastedown, and "John Fitch, 18[ink blot]," on lower free end leaf. NN
Binding
Bound in quarter red leather with marbled paper boards. NN
Local Note
Copy in *KH lacks the frontispiece.
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Added Author
Squire, Charles, printer.
Tabart and Co. Bookseller
Children's Room Collection.
Research Call Number
*KH 1807 Old 11-63
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