Author: KENTISH, MRS.:
Title: How to be Happy: or, The Cottage of Content; the Cottage on Fire; and the Water-Cress Boy. Embellished with Thirteen Neatly Coloured Engravings.
Description: London: Printed and Sold by Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street..., [no date] c.1825 12mo, 169 mx 101 mms., pp. 30 [31 - 32 adverts], full-page colour frontispiece and 12 coloured wood-engraved vignettes within text on pages 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13, 16, 21, 23, 25, 28, 30, original printed wrappers, with slight wear to extremities, but a very good copy with fresh colours and unusually good condition. Mrs. Kentish is not a fictitious name, but that of a real person, though very little is known about her. C. R. Johnson, in Provincial Poetry 1789 - 1839 records a copy of one of her earlier books, Poems on Various Subjects, Liverpool 1821, with a note that she was a resident of St. Salvador, Brazil. Library Hub locates a copy in the BL, giving a date of ?1847, but the adverts indicate an earlier date. OCLC locates eight copies of an American imprint in New Haven, Connecticut, as well as two printed in London adding A. K. Newman & Co. to the imprint recorded in the present copy. There is a copy of this imprint in Cotsen, but it is an uncommon book.

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