Tommy Trip's Pictures of Beasts and Birds, with a familiar Description of each, in Verse and Prose... Published for the Benefit of the little Masters and Misses of the United States of America. Boston: Samuel Hall, 1792. 12mo (112 x 85 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, 60 woodcut engraved plates. Contemporary wooden boards, spine perished, front board split, paper covers worn, cords present, some staining to leaves, intermittent chipping but little loss of text, pp 8-9 bound in reverse. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TOMMY TRIP, CITED FROM ADVERTISEMENTS BY WELCH BUT UNLOCATED UNTIL NOW. Welch notes Samuel Hall advertisements in 1791, 1793, and 1794, but no copy of the book has been noted in collections or bibliographies, no institutional holdings, that we can locate. In his book American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847, Matthew Wynn Sivils notes the only known edition as Hall's retitled 1796 reprint Pictures of Seenty-Two Beasts and Birds. The work itself was originally advertised by Newbery (as Carnan) in 1752, as A Pretty Book Of Pictures For Little Masters and Misses: Or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds, and eventually the woodcuts were supplied by Thomas Bewick (c. 1779). A PREVIOUSLY UNLOCATED COPY OF AN IMPORTANT CHILDREN'S BOOK.
Tommy Trip's Pictures of Beasts and Birds, with a familiar Description of each, in Verse and Prose... Published for the Benefit of the little Masters and Misses of the United States of America. Boston: Samuel Hall, 1792. 12mo (112 x 85 mm). Woodcut frontispiece, 60 woodcut engraved plates. Contemporary wooden boards, spine perished, front board split, paper covers worn, cords present, some staining to leaves, intermittent chipping but little loss of text, pp 8-9 bound in reverse. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF TOMMY TRIP, CITED FROM ADVERTISEMENTS BY WELCH BUT UNLOCATED UNTIL NOW. Welch notes Samuel Hall advertisements in 1791, 1793, and 1794, but no copy of the book has been noted in collections or bibliographies, no institutional holdings, that we can locate. In his book American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847, Matthew Wynn Sivils notes the only known edition as Hall's retitled 1796 reprint Pictures of Seenty-Two Beasts and Birds. The work itself was originally advertised by Newbery (as Carnan) in 1752, as A Pretty Book Of Pictures For Little Masters and Misses: Or, Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds, and eventually the woodcuts were supplied by Thomas Bewick (c. 1779). A PREVIOUSLY UNLOCATED COPY OF AN IMPORTANT CHILDREN'S BOOK.
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