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Watts, Priscilla Maden.
The New Year's Gift; and Juvenile Souvenir.
Publisher: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, London;
Date of Publication: 1828
Stock Code: 14873
Duodecimo, pp., xii, 240, [6] of publisher’s advertisements, plus engraved title-page, frontispiece, 10 full-page plates, wood-block vignettes within text. Collated and complete. Quarter green morocco over cream-coloured boards; titled in gilt to spine; all edges gilt. Binder’s ticket of F[rancis] Westley to end. Very minor soiling to boards, corners bumped. Light, scattered foxing to some plates but contents generally clean and neat. A very good copy. The first issue of an anthology of stories, poetry, and illustrations for juvenile readers edited by English writer Priscilla Maden Watts, writing under her married name Mrs Alaric Watts. The final issue was published in 1836. Francis Westley was a binder and bookseller whose blocked-cloth bindings featured at the Great Exhibition of 1851. She was awarded a gold medal for her bookbinding at the Great Exhibition of 1862. £65.00