Pity's Gift: A collection of interesting tales, to excite the compassion of youth for the animal creation. Ornamented with vignettes. Selected by a lady, from the writings of Mr. Pratt. The second edition.

ID 12827
Title Pity's Gift: A collection of interesting tales, to excite the compassion of youth for the animal creation. Ornamented with vignettes. Selected by a lady, from the writings of Mr. Pratt. The second edition.
Contributors
Signed Author Selected by a lady, from the writings of Mr. Pratt.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination viii, 147
Date of Publication 1798
Edition Statement The Second Edition.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1798
Imprint Printed for T. N. Longman, Paternoster-Row; and E. Newbery, St. Paul's Church-yard
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing London GB
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 17
Width (cm) 10
Price (pound)
Price (shilling) 2
Price (pence)
Total Price (in pence) 24
Non-UK Price
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Sources
Shelfmarks
  • BL 1076.g.34.
  • NUTP
  • LUL
  • Traylen
  • Osborne cat. p. 211
  • UCLA
  • Welch
  • Grant
Notes BL manuscript note in 1807 edition attributes the role of compiler to Letitia Pilkington, presumably in error, as she died in 1750.
Hand-Verified Yes
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Attempted Verification No

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Pratt, Samuel Jackson. Pity's Gift: A collection of interesting tales, to excite the compassion of youth for the animal creation. Ornamented with vignettes. Selected by a lady, from the writings of Mr. Pratt. The second edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 12827, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/12827. Accessed 2025-11-04. 

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  author={Pratt,Samuel Jackson},
  year={1798},
  title={Pity's Gift: A collection of interesting tales, to excite the compassion of youth for the animal creation. Ornamented with vignettes. Selected by a lady, from the writings of Mr. Pratt. The second edition.},
  publisher={Thomas Norton Longman III \& Elizabeth Newbery},
  address={London},    }

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