[Memoirs of Little Jack Horner a renowned character...W. and T. Darton, 1806.]

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[Memoirs of Little Jack Horner a renowned character...W. and T. Darton, 1806.]

16° (120 x 94mm). 16 pages, each with a picture above verse stanzas, the sheet printed on one side only. Engraved throughout and hand-coloured at the publishers; three pages with the imprint "Published June 19 1806 by W. and T. Darton London". (Recto of first leaf with ms. title and date; lacking original wrappers with title, reconstructed above, the leaves bound into old marbled paper boards with a linen spine and manuscript title-label).

A & M no.38 and Appendix I, noting Mrs. Moon's observation "one of the prettiest nursery-rhyme books of its period that I have seen."

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