[Scrapbook]
Wilson & Spence (York, England)
[York : Wilson & Spence,
1784?-1806?]
'An album containing many cuts taken from Wilson & Spence's specimen books' - front pastedown. Wilson and Spence were booksellers, printers and publishers in York in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The album includes engraved title pages and woodcuts from books printed in England in the 17th and 18th centuries. The titles include 'Guy, Earl of Warwick', 'David's repentence', 'Francis Quarle's emblems and hieroglyphicks' (1764), 'The history of genesis' (1708), 'Fairy tales by Mother Goose', 'Mother Shipton's legacy', 'Goody goosecap', 'History of England', 'Philip Quarl', 'Robin Hood's garland', 'Goody two shoes', 'New Year's gift', 'Goodville family', 'The Mother Shipton's legacy', 'The pleasing fabulist', 'Lilliputian masqurade', 'Mother's gift', 'Mrs. Pleasant's story book', 'Babes in the wood', 'New riddle book', 'History of birds & beasts' (Bewick), 'Enchanted castle', 'Pleasing gift', 'Mem. of little personages', 'New riddle book', 'Royal battledoors', 'Picture exhibition', 'Golden plaything', 'Tom Thumb's book', 'Babes in the wood', 'Sugar plum', 'Tommy two shoes', 'Robin Hood' 'Tom Thumb's play book', 'The fairing or golden toy', 'Holiday present', 'Primrose Prettyface', 'Cock Robin', 'Cream of all jests', 'The easter gift', 'Mother Chit-Chat's curious tales and puzzles' (Newcastle, 1787) and 'The history of all nations'. Illustrations from other works including some printed in London by R. Harrild and J. Kendrick, loosely inserted.