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London, no date, circa 1790. a work entirely calculated to excite laughter in grown persons, and promote morality, in the young ones of both sexes: decorated with 34 copper plates curiously drawn and elegantly engraved. RARE COLOURED COPY OF A VERY RARE CHILDREN'S BOOK. London : printed for and sold by Edward Ryland, at No 67 in the Old Bailey, Price 1s Plain, 2s Coloured. No date, circa 1790. 12mo, 120 x 90 mm, 4¾ x 3¾ inches, LACKS 2 COLOUR PLATES, NUMBERS 9 and 27, ALSO LACKS THE LAST PAGE, THE TEXT FOR PLATE 31. Hand coloured frontispiece, engraved title page with colour vignette, unnumbered full page colour plate facing first page of Introduction, the rest numbered from 1-31, pages ii, 3-62, quarter leather with marbled paper covers. Binding rubbed, shelf wear to edges, light creasing to frontispiece, pastedown and first free endpaper heavily inscribed in old ink by previous owners, with the date of 1802 as the date of the book being received as a gift, 2 plates have outer margin trimmed but not affecting images, 1 plate and the following page have very small loss to top corner, not affecting image or text, 1 page has crude repairs with slight loss of text which has been inked in on the repairs, a little soiling and spotting to some pages, otherwise a good copy of this scarce children's book. Hand coloured copies are very rare. The images show: Horses riding men; The Ox driving the farmers at plough; A Fish angling for a man; An Ass driving the miller to market and the mill turned topsy-turvy; A Hare roasting a cook on the spit and the Cock basting him; A Deer shooting at the Game Keeper etc. Not listed in Osborne, Gumuchian or Sotheby's Oppenheimer catalogue. Images sent on request.

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