The peacock "at home" : a sequel to The butterfly's ball / written by a lady, and illustrated with elegant engravings.
Bibliographic Citation:
Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817? The peacock "at home" : a sequel to The butterfly's ball / written by a lady, and illustrated with elegant engravings. London : J. Harris, 1808.
Publisher:
J. Harris, 1808.
Notes:
  • In verse.
  • Written by Catherine Ann Turner Dorset as a sequel to The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast, by W. Roscoe.
  • Illustrated by W. Mulready, Cf. Brit. Mus. Cat.
  • First sentence: "The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feasts, Excited the spleen of the Birds and the Beasts: For their mirth and good cheer--of the Bee was the theme, And the Gnat blew his horn, as he danc'd in the beam."
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Bourke Collection: 8 copperplates, attributed to Mulready. Bound with The elephant's ball, and grand fete champetre. London: Printed for J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library,1808. Bound together subsequent to publication with 4 other Roscoe imitations; without original wrappers. 1/2 leather binding, marbled paper over boards. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Children's Collections: Brown pictorial paper wrappers. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Children's Collections:Blue pictorial paper wrappers.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 13 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7401
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H37_D67_1808