The elephant's ball, and grand fete champetre :
intended as a companion to those much admired pieces, The butterfly's ball, and The peacock "at home" : illustrated with elegant engravings /
by W.B.

Description

Main Author

W. B.

Related Names

Roscoe, William, 1753-1831.
Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817?
Hemsted, Edmund, printer.
Harris, John, 1756-1846, publisher.
Mulready, William, 1786-1863, engraver.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Printed for J. Harris, successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library, 1808

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Elephants > Elephants / Juvenile poetry.
Animals > Animals / Juvenile poetry.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / London > Chapbooks / England / London / 19th century
Nursery rhymes.

Note

First sentence: "The insects and birds, with the balls and their feasts, Caus'd much conversation among all the beasts: The Elephant, famous for sense as for size, At such entertainments express'd much surprise; Says he, 'shall these impudent tribes of the air, To break our soft slumbers thus wantonly dare?'"
Wood-engraved tail-piece.
Plates attributed to William Mulready, cf. Moon, cited below.
Copper-engraved plates; frontispiece dated: Dec. 5, 1807.

Physical Description

16 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 13 cm.

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