VICTORIAN MINIATURE BOOK . - Wisdom In Miniature Or The Pleasing Instructor.

[London] : Published by J. Bysh, 52 Paternoster Row & Sold by C. Penny, Wood Street & Bowdery & Kerby, Oxford Street, [no date c. 1818 ] . Scarce 19th century Miniature book. Original half leather binding. pp.iv./pp.284 . 6.7cm x 4.5cm x 1.8cm . Brown calf spine and corners over very rubbed boards. Flat spine with gilt banding. Hinges and corners carefully strengthened. Previous owner's signature to front free-endpaper: "H. Boyce". Engraved frontis and title-page, soiled and foxed. Engraved frontis by 'Roberts sc.' after 'Cruikshank del.' Leading edge very rubbed with small loss. Clear English text throughout. Colophon to base of last leaf: "W. Shackwell, Printer, Johnson's court, Fleet-street, London." A well preserved copy of this scarce publication. Date of publication estimated from printer's details. ** "John Bysh, 1817-1840s (fl. c.), 52 Paternoster Row in 1817" - British Museum .

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