Pretty Little Poems for Pretty Little People;

explanatory of the operations of nature, in a style suited to their capacities, from the age of Two to Twelve years.

  • red embossed cloth with gilt pictorial vignette on upper cover, gilt-title on spine
By WATTS (Louisa)

WATTS (Louisa): Pretty Little Poems for Pretty Little People; explanatory of the operations of nature, in a style suited to their capacities, from the age of Two to Twelve years. Halifax: William Milner, 1846. Unillustrated. 16mo, 146pp; red embossed cloth with gilt pictorial vignette on upper cover, gilt-title on spine, top right corner bumped, covers lightly soiled, a very good copy overall.

Second edition (newly revised), predates all entries in OCLC with an ownership inscription on front free endpaper: "Master Edward Allen, 5th April 1847". With 116 poems including a seven stanza "Negro's Complaint".

Details

Title

Pretty Little Poems for Pretty Little People;

Author

WATTS (Louisa)

Binding

red embossed cloth with gilt pictorial vignette on upper cover, gilt-title on spine

Condition

Unknown

Edition

Second edition, newly revised

Size

16mo

Pages

146pp


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