First edition of this chapbook for beginning readers, including a cautionary tale about cake-eating methods.
Very good.
Price: $150.00
"There was a little boy, he was not a big boy, for if he had been a big boy, I suppose he would have been wiser."
This little collection of stories serves as a guide for how to be a well-behaved 19th-century child... or at least, how not to be a naughty one. A rare Degen & Estes title, with no holdings located in OCLC.
Boston: Degen & Estes, [circa 1865]. 4'' x 2.5''. Original pink pictorial wrapper, saddle-stitched. Illustrated with a variety of woodcuts. 16 pages with ad to rear wrapper. Contemporary gift inscription to title page. Wrapper margins with light sunning, a bit of edgewear. A sound copy of an ephemeral production.
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