YOUTHFUL RECREATIONS, containing Amusements of a Day, as spent By…

YOUTHFUL RECREATIONS, containing Amusements of a Day, as spent By Master Freelove and his Companions. Interspersed with Stories, suitable Observations, Verses, and other Matters of Instruction and Entertainment.

London: E. Newbery, 1796. [Price Six Pence.] 128 pages. Engraved frontispiece and fourteen wood-engravings within the text. Original Dutch floral boards. An excellent, clean copy contained in a folding cloth and marbled paper folding case. Marjory Moon’s copy with her bookplate to the front pastedown. Lot 27 in the sale of her book at Christie’s 28th June 1995. Roscoe J397(12). First published in 1789. All copies are rare.

Book ID: 15527
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