THE RISE OF LEARNING, or Ground-Work of Science, Showing how Good Boys and Girls, By attending to the Rules contained in this Book, and obeying their Parents and Guardians, may acquire Wisdom, Riches, and Honour, By Mrs Winlove.
Glasgow: Published by J. Lumsden & Son, No date [circa 1819]. Price Two Pence. [48] pages, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a fine wood-engraved alphabet of four pages, three wood-engravings illustrating fables, twenty-six woodcuts illustrating the letters of the alphabet and one other woodcut. Original printed blue wrappers with a ‘turnover’ woodcut to the lowers wrapper of a merry cobbler and a schoolmaster. 99 x 61 mm. Spine expertly repaired, else fine of this excellent chapbook. Roscoe & Brimmell 16. .
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