Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Austin, Richard T
2. Bewick, John, 1760-1795
3. James Lumsden & Son. pbl
4. Children's Room Collection

Description

1. 67 p. : ill. (woodcuts); 14 cm.

Alternative title

1. Plan to enable children of all denominations to behave with honour, integrity, and humanity

Subject

1. Valentine's Day -- Juvenile fiction
2. Animal welfare -- Juvenile literature
3. Human-animal communication -- Juvenile literature

Genre/Form

1. Juvenile literature – Scotland – Glasgow – 1816.

Call number

1. *KH 1818 Vicissitude 11-137

Note

1. "Price Sixpence."
2. Earliest publication date from Roscoe, cited below.
3. Dated by Gumuchian, 5710, as ca. 1815.
4. Originally published by John Newbery in 1765.
5. Woodcut frontispiece and 14 full-page illustrations, those at p. 34 and 39 signed "R. Austin"; the others are probably by him, according to Roscoe. Hugo, cited below, notes that "several may be by Bewick. Several, and perhaps all, are by Austin."
6. Frontispiece included in pagination.
7. Cf. Gumuchian, 5710.

Indexed in (note)

1. Roscoe, S. Lumsden
2. Hugo, T. Bewick

Title

1. The valentine's gift, or, A plan to enable children of all denominations to behave with honour, integrity, and humanity : to which is added, some account of Old Zigzag, and of the horn which he used to understand the language of birds, beasts, fishes, and insects.

Imprint

1. Glasgow : Published and Sold by J. Lumsden & Son, [not before 1816]

Indexed in:

1. Roscoe, S. Lumsden, 134
2. Hugo, T. Bewick, (311)

Local note

1. Copy in *KH is No. 2 of four titles published by J. Lumsden bound together in the same volume.

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Austin, Richard T. Engraver
2. Bewick, John, 1760-1795.
3. James Lumsden & Son. Publisher
4. Children's Room Collection.

Research call number

1. *KH 1818 Vicissitude 11-137