The lark and the linnet
Subtitle: hymns, songs, and fables
By: by Eliza Lee Follen.
Contributors: Cundall, Joseph, 1818-1895.; Thompson, Lawrence, printer; M. & N. Hanhart (Firm)
Publisher: Addey and Co.
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Added lithographed t.p. with imprint: "M. & N. Hanhart, Impt".

T.p. and text printed within thin black rule border.

Preliminary lithographed plate is unsigned.  Lithograph is tinted yellow-beige and grey-blue.

Wood-engraved plate is signed: "Marsh".

Includes "Preface to the first American Edition by Charles Follen.": p. iii-iv.

Includes "Preface to the Present English Edition.": p. v-vi.

"Most off the poems were written with no other hope, than that they would instruct or please some child.  The pleasure they have given in a limited circle, has tempted the writer to print them.  Some have never before appeared in public, but most of them have been already published in different works--some few, without the author's knowledge"--Preface to the first American Edition.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-8 at end.

According to Ruari McLean, Joseph Cundall was possibly involved in the production of this book.  Cf. His notes at the Massey College Library.

MASS copy: Bound in later blue pebble-grain cloth with the spine tooled in gold; a.e. speckled red.  With ink stamp: "Kinch, Liverpool".  Bound with the original upper free endpaper that includes embossed stamp: "Misses Farrar  Stationers  British Telegraph Office  Halifax".  Original endpaper also includes ownership inscriptions: "Eliza Townson  24 10 Mo. 1860" and "Eliza Townson 24 10 Mo. 1868".