Author: HOOD, Thomas
Title: Precocious Piggy
Description: San Marino, The Huntington Library, 1969. Paperback. 4to. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers. (21pp). Color illustrations. Fine. Pristine first edition. James Thorpe introduces this "facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript" of this delightful children's tale (ten leaves, rectos only) made by this 19th century poet/humorist/author (1799-1845) in 1835 for his children -- and not punlished in book form until 1859 as " The Headlong Career and Woeful Ending of Precocious Piggy. .

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