The Linnet's life : twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each

Resource Information

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Label

The Linnet's life : twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each

Link

• https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7079944M
• https://archive.org/details/linnetslifetwelv00tayliala

Title remainder

twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each

Instantiates

• The Linnet's life : twelve poems with a copper plate engraving to each

Publication

• London, Printed for G. and W.B. Whittaker, 1822

Note

• Composite authorship by various members of the Taylor family: Ann, Jane, the Rev. Isaac,and perhaps Isaac, jr. Plates drawn and engraved by the Rev. Isaac Taylor. See Stewart, cited below
• First edition. Each poem is illustrated with a charming engraving. Frontispiece showing the linnet; see Gumuchian below
• A brief prose description of a linnet precedes the poem; see Osborne below

Extent

1 online resource (36 pages, [12] leaves of plates

Form of item

online

Note

• Special Collections copy 1 = Quarter red sheep and marbled paper over boards. Ex libris Olive Percival. Inscription in ink, dated 1836, on upper free endpaper. A publisher's yellow ads pasted on upper paste-down and free endpaper.
• Special Collections copy 2 = Quarter black sheep and marbled paper over boards. Ex libris May & George Shiers. Bookplate of George Hubbard on upper free endpaper. Inscription in ink on upper free endpaper. All plates are hand-colored.

Other physical details

illustrations)

Record ID

linnetslifetwelv00tayliala

Specific material designation

remote