first edition Publisher's brown cloth with dark brown leather label stamped in gilt.
1834 · London:
by [ Cheap,Eliza ]
London: L.B. Seeley and Sons, 1834 First edition. Publisher's brown cloth with dark brown leather label stamped in gilt. . Twelvemo. With seven attractive engraved plates (including frontispiece). Some soiling to cloth. All edges gilt. Yellow coated endpapers. A clean copy aside from some dampstaining to endpapers. Ink gift signature (1835) to front flyleaf. A very good copy of a scarce work. A didactic work for children that utilizes natural history to illustrate moral lessons. The first chapter explains the behavior and anatomy of monkeys, bees, parrots, and bullfinches, while the second uses the grafting of fruit trees as a metaphor—complete with an illustration of a man cutting a branch for grafting. Other chapters explain the tools needed for carpentry, sewing, and painting, and revisit botanical and zoological metaphors.
(Inventory #: 17031)