Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children
Irongate, Derby: J. Drewry, ca. 1790. Wraps. Fine. Item #19092 In fine condition with only a trace of aging. Housed in a custom clamshell case.
12mo. 16pp. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. Self wrappers. Likely the first edition. Uncut and unbound: A single sheet printed on both sides, folded for binding, but never cut or bound. Rare in this condition.
Osborne ascribed a date of c. 1790, a similar book under the same title was printed in the United States by Isaiah Thomas, 1794 (Welch, #173). Osborne. p. 3.
Price: $2,000.00
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