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LITERATURE AND CHILDREN'S BOOKS FROM THE COLLECTION OF DAVID R. MACDONALD
[Christmas Carol]
MIRTH WITHOUT MISCHIEF. CONTAINING THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS; THE PLAY OF THE GAPING-WIDE-MOUTHED-WADLING-FROG; LOVE AND HATRED; THE ART OF TALKING WITH THE FINGERS; AND NIMBLE NED'S ALPHABET AND FIGURES. LONDON: PRINTED BY J. DAVENPORT ... FOR C. SHEPPARD, [1780]
32mo (4 x 2 3/8 in.; 102 x 60 mm). Woodcut frontispiece with 5 lines of poetry beneath, woodcut title vignette, woodcut text illustrations, 1 page publisher's advertisement at end. Publisher's blue printed wrappers with imprint of G. Thompson, and his advertisement on bottom cover; small tears in backstrip mended. In a blue cloth slipcase.
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