May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 36

Price Realized: $ 288
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Johnson, Benjamin; printer. A Trifle for a Good Girl. Frontispiece and 10 engraved illustrations. 12mo, front wrapper only, two worm holes eating through to margin of frontispiece, other edgewear; scattered soiling, light ink and pencil notations on title-page. Philadelphia, 1807

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While the title-page states that the volume should contain 14 engravings, it collates to the copy in the Betsy Shirley Collection at the Beineke Library at Yale, though their copy lacks the frontispiece which is present here.