CAUTIONARY STORIES, CONTAINING THE DAISY AND COWSLIP, adapted to the…

CAUTIONARY STORIES, CONTAINING THE DAISY AND COWSLIP, adapted to the ideas of children from four to eight years old. Embellished with sixty engravings on wood.

London. John Harris. 1825. [3],4-66pp. 30 wood-engraved plates including frontispiece with two engravings per plate. Original cloth boards with paper label pasted onto upper board, at some time rebacked. Small octavo. First edition thus [the titles being published separately in 1807 and 1811]. Boards a little rubbed with some wear to edges; board corners bumped and worn; previous owner's name to front paste-down endpaper; front and rear free endpapers replaced; light spotting to rear paste-down endpaper; a few pages a little ragged at outer edges, and one leaf with a short tear; else a very good copy.Moon 931.

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