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    A natural history of quadrupeds : to which is prefixed the history of Tommy Trip and his dog Jowler.

    • Title:A natural history of quadrupeds : to which is prefixed the history of Tommy Trip and his dog Jowler.
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    • Variant Title:History of Tommy Trip
    • Other Contributors/Collections:James Lumsden & Son, publisher.
    • Published/Created:Glasgow : Published by Lumsden & Son at their Toy Book Manufactory, [between 1799 and 1805?]
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Animals--Juvenile literature.
      Natural history--Juvenile literature.
    • Description:52 pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
    • Additional formats:Available also online.
    • Local note:UBC Library has a copy lacking frontispiece.
    • Notes:"Embellished with eight elegant copper plate cuts."
      "Price sixpence."
      The Lumsdens' books with "Toy Book Manufactory" in the imprint seem to have been published between 1799 and about 1805 (see S. Roscoe's James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow).
      Title page and frontispiece make up a gathering of two leaves; remainder of leaves sewn in one gathering. Leaves and plates before the fold are signed A-C as a guide to folding and insertion. Plates included in pagination.
      No. 9 in a vol. of 9 chapbooks bound after publication
    • Cited in:English short title catalogue, N40559
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