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Cupid's Annual Charter; or St. Valentine's Festival In which all true lovers have free leave to declare their sentiments for each other.
18207617London: Published by W. Perks 1820. SOLE EDITION 12mo pp. 24 hand-coloured frontispiece. Partly unopened and stitched as issued in original blue paper wrappers front wrapper printed in black. A little light soiling slight creasing to title-page. Wrappers split at spine. A scarce little collection of verse mostly in address-and-answer format between ‘Valentine’ and various types: faithless lover gentleman miser coquette old batchelor etc. Various catalogues guess a date between 1798 and 1830 but BBTI puts the publisher’s active period at 1820-1826 and the printer George Smeeton at 139 St Martin’s Lane between 1808 and 1839. The Yale catalogue attributes the frontispiece to Isaac Cruikshank. Published by W. Perks unknown
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