A COLLECTION OF BIRDS & RIDDLES. York, J. Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate.
[n.d. but ca. 1810-1830.]. 32mo, pp. 16 including wrappers, illustrated with fifteen wood-engravings; clean and bright; stitched as issued in the original yellow printed wrappers; a very good copy. A charming York printed chapbook published by J. Kendrew, containing poems on various birds, interspersed with riddles and illustrated with appealing woodcuts.
Bibliography: Osborne I. 57; Bryant, Dictionary of Riddles, p. 132; Meriton & Dumontet, 731; Gumuchian 1578; Jackson Bibliography of Romantic Poetry, 4774; OCLC locates copies at the Morgan, Bryn Mawr, the British Library, the V & A, the National Library of Scotland, York, Manchester, and Toronto.
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