The rational dame
Subtitle: or, Hints towards supplying prattle for children
Contributors: Dodd, Daniel, illustrator; Royce, John, active 1773-1789, engraver; Marshall, John (Printer), printer; John Marshall and Co. (Booksellers : London, England)
Edition: The fifth edition
Publisher: Printed and sold by John Marshall, at No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, Cheapside
Published: 1796
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 119
Subjects: Animals; Juvenile fiction; Early works to 1800; Nature study; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Hints towards supplying prattle for children
Notes: Anonymous. By Ellenor Fenn

With a half-title

Form of imprint (John Marshall at 4 Aldermary Church-Yard only) and lack of colophon suggest a date of publication between 1796 and 1799

Frontispiece engraved by Royce after Daniel Dodd

Listing of Mrs. Teachwell's (pseudonym of Lady Fenn)--publications on p. [120]

Rare Book copy: Contemporary marbled boards with later sheepskin spine.

English short title catalogue (ESTC), N23617

Opie, I. Three centuries of nursery rhymes and poetry for children, B 113