Valentine writer comprising twenty-four comic valentine texts, many with small illustrations. Hand-colored folding plate with a comic valentine to a cook, above which is a red-nosed caricature.
Original self-wrappers, the upper with an engraved vignette of cupid firing an arrow from the center of a rose, titling above and imprint below, the whole in a double rule frame with decorative floral corner ornament.
- Title: The ladies’ valentine writer : for the present year.
- Publication: London : Printed by J. Catnach, 2 & 3, Monmouth Cou[rt] in the parish of St. Giles’s, [1820s?]
File 19 820L
Acquired August 2023