Fables and other short poems, collected from the most celebrated English authors, for the practice and amusement of young gentlemen and ladies; in the art of writing, with alphabets & copies in all the hands now practis'd in Great Britain. ... The whole curiously engrav'd on a hundred copper-plates, by Geo: Bickham junr. and Jno. Bickham

People / Organizations

• Thos: Cobb ("printed by and for", or "by/for and sold by")
• George Bickham the younger (Author)
• John Bickham (Author)

Imprint

London : printed and sold by Thos: Cobb at the Printing Office in Bow Church Yard, [1731]

Added name

Bickham, John.

Publication year

1731

ESTC No.

N8530

Grub Street ID

53429

Description

[4],32,20,12,23,9leaves ; 8°.

Note

Engraved throughout; numbered leaves; printed on recto only

Each volume and section has individual titlepage; first volume, unnumbered, has imprint: Printed & sold by Thos. Cobb (who married ye widow of Mr. John Cluer); title dated 1731. V. II imprint: Printed and sold by Thos. Cobb (who married the widow of Mr. Jno. Cluer); v. II includes 'A new introduction to the art of drawing' by Geo. Bickham junr. V. III imprint: Printed and sold by Thos. Cobb; v. III includes 'Tables for reducing the most common gold coins to pounds, and the contrary. ..'.

Uncontrolled note

Frontis. and general titlepage precede volume I. - Dated from v. I