Pity's gift
Subtitle: a collection of interesting tales, to excite the compassion of youth for the animal creation, ornamented with vignettes
By: from the writings of Mr. Pratt ; selected by a Lady
Contributors: Pilkington, Mrs. 1766-1839
Publisher: Printed for T.N. Longman, Paternoster-Row, and E. Newbery, St. Paul's Church-yard
Published: 1798
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
Subjects: Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction; Animals -- Juvenile fiction
Notes: S. Roscoe, John Newbery J305(1) indicates the "Lady" was possibly Mrs. Pilkington

Woodcuts formerly attributed to the  Bewicks, cf. T. Hugo, Bewick collector, no. 122 and suppl. p. xv; Roscoe erroneously suggests Isaac Nicholson, T. Bewick's apprentice (b. 1789, began apprenticeship 1806, cf. R.K. Engen, Dict. of Victorian wood engravers, p. 193)

Signatures:  [A]p4 sB-Gp12 sHp2s

Publisher's ads, [1] p. at end

Osborne coll., I, p. 211

Gumuchian, 4614

NCBEL, II, 677

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