WITH A SIGNED TOKEN AND DARTON’S TRADE CARD
ELLIOTT, Mary [née Belson].
Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …
London: William Darton, sold also by Harvey and Darton … and John Harris … [c. 1825].
8vo, pp. viii, 9-143, [1, advertisements]; engraved frontispiece, preceded by additional engraved ‘token’ leaf, inscribed ‘Mary Ann Mantel [from] her cousin Martha Flower Nov 8th 1839’; Darton’s engraved trade card to rear; frontispiece spotted and stained, some light foxing throughout, contents lightly shaken, otherwise a good copy in original quarter blue roan and boards, spine gilt, fairly severely rubbed; the trade card is mostly very clean, the corners lightly creased; leaf loosely laid in; pencil marks to margins.
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Simple Truths, in Verse; for the Amusement and Instruction of Children at an early Age …
‘Fourth edition, corrected and revised’. Elliott was an extremely prolific author for Darton. These poems are settings of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children (1791).
We have traced one other book on LibraryHub bearing this trade card with the address given as the ‘Repository of Genius, 58 Holborn Hill’, at the Bodleian: Food for Thought by “Mother”, published 1823.
Darton H505.
