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Author/Creator:Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817?
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Title:The peacock "at home" : a sequel to The butterfly's ball / written by a lady, and illustrated with elegant engravings.
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Edition:New ed., with new plates.
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Published/Created:London : J. Harris, 1808.
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Physical Description:16 pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm
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Notes:In verse.
A cockatoo is included in one of the engravings and in the verse on p. 13.
Written by Catherine Ann Turner Dorset as a sequel to The butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast, by W. Roscoe.
Sequel: The lion's masquerade.
With original printed blue wrappers and edition statement above the title.
Illustrated by W. Mulready? See British Museum catalogue.
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."
List of publications by Harris on back cover.
- Format:Book
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Subjects:Birds--Juvenile poetry.
Animals--Juvenile poetry.
Natural history--Juvenile poetry.
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Genre/Form:Chapbooks.
Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks--England--London--19th century.
Publisher's advertisements.
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Also listed under:Mulready, William, 1786-1863, illustrator.
Roscoe, William, 1753-1831. Butterfly's ball and the grasshopper's feast.
Harris, John, 1756-1846, publisher.
Bryer, Henry, printer.
England--London.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15014947