The Life and Times of James Catnach, Late of Seven Dials , Ballad Monger

by Charles Hindley, d. 1893

$75 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Reeves and Turner, 1878. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. pp. xvi, 432 12 . With frequent engravings. In publisher's green cloth with black titles to paper label on spine. All edges untrimmed. Reading lean. Title label badly worn; titles largely obscured. Good overall. 'Here, you may read how he was bred and born the son of a printer... How he came to London to seek his fortune. How he obtained it by printing and publishing children's books, the chronicling

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