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A Taste of Horton - A selection of items from the Horton Collection of Children's Material

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Call. No HOR H BAL
Author [BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael]
Title The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast ; by Comus, author of "Three little kittens". "Mister fox," etc.
Imprint London : Thomas Nelson and sons, 1857.
Page Size 245 x 185 mm
Collation frontis., t.p., 9-24, 11 plates.
Printer  
Illustrations 8 coloured woodblock plates (inc. frontis.)
Binding Brown ribbed grain morocco cloth ; framed in double rule, enclosing decorative border, blind blocked ; additional title and decoration blocked in gilt on front cover ; rebacked, retaining original cloth ; pale yellow tinted e.p. ; new end fly-leaf.
Annotation Pages framed in rule.
Collections  
References  
Contents The butterfly's ball [set to music]
[William Roscoe's verses with corresponding prose version]
Tracings BALLANTYNE, Robert Michael
NELSON, Thomas AND SONS
ROSCOE, William

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