Book Description

ANON. JACKY DANDY’S DELIGHT : or, the History of Birds and Beasts; in Prose and Verse, Embellished with Wood Cuts. J.Kendrew, Printer York. Pp16 including covers. No date but circa 1810-1820. With a page of alphabets and 13 woodcuts . Disbound with evidence of previous binding to the spine, now resewn with linen thread. Some of the woodcuts bear marked similarities to Berwick engravings in “ Quadrupeds” and “ British Birds”. In Very Good plus condition overall. The covers, as with all of the Kendrew 16 pp chapbooks, were simply washed with yellow after printing and binding.
Author KENDREW OF YORK CHAPBOOK

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