The Toy-shop, Skill, frontispiece

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The frontispiece for The Toy-shop, or, Sentimental Preceptor: Containing Some Choice Trifles, for the Amusement of Every Little Miss and Master, published by F. Skill, 1830. Courtesy of Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA; Original item held at the Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA. Digitized image from Internet Archive.

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In this frontispiece to the 1830 edition, Horace and Bellinda, holding their mother's hand, eagerly enter the toyshop, with the name "Skill" printed over the door. The title page lists "F. Skill" as the printer for this edition. Some copies of this edition use this same image but do not have Skill over the door. Likely, someone added the name later in the printing process or with a second printing.

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    Image
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  • container title
    [Richard Johnson], The Toy-shop, or, Sentimental Preceptor: Containing Some Choice Trifles, for the Amusement of Every Little Miss and Master (London: F. Skill, 1830).
  • credit
    Digitized from the original at the UCLA and accessed via Internet Archive.
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    Public Domain