Evenings at home : or, The juvenile budget opened: consisting of a variety of miscellaneous pieces for the instruction and amusement of young persons.
John Aikin (1747 - 1822)
Category
Books
Date
1868
Materials
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 3219762
Summary
Bibliographic description
357, [3], 12 p., [1] leaf of plates ; 14cm. Provenance: Inscribed on flyleaf "To Miss Eliza Soresby with the best wishes of her affectionate B[...] Finney Aug. 6, 1868". Binding: Nineteenth-century publisher's full gilt embossed purple cloth, gilt lettered on spine. Dark green endpapers, gilt edges. Text-block nearly fully detached.
Makers and roles
John Aikin (1747 - 1822) Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743 - 1825) Nimmo, William Philip James Ballantyne and Co