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[CHILDREN'S]. The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; otherwise called Mrs. Margery TwoshoesThe First Worcester Edition. Worcester, Mass.: by Isaiah Thomas, 1787.
32o (97 x 64 mm). Engraved woodcut frontispiece and 35 woodcuts in the text based on designs from the original Newbery version; advertisement leaf for other Thomas publications at end. Early 19th-century silver (remainder?) wrappers (a little chipping to spine, front wrapper with lower fore-corner chipped); morocco slipcase. Provenance: pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1827; bookseller George M. Millard, Pasadena (catalogue description laid in); Estelle Doheny (her sale, part V, 21 February 1989, lot 1975).
EARLIEST AVAILABLE EDITION. Previously thought to be the first American edition, the Isaiah Thomas Worcester edition was preceded by the New York (Hugh Gaine) 1775, the Boston 1783, and the Philadelphia 1786 editions-known in only a handful of copies, and most incomplete. "Much has been written as to the authorship of Little Goody Two Shoes, and it is now usually attributed to Oliver Goldsmith" (Rosenbach). Evans 20412; Gumuchian 2753 (paired with the London 1767 fourth edition); Rosenbach 118; Welch 463.4.
[With:] The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin Philadelphia: S. Probasco for Benjamin Warner, 1821. Square 8o (127 x 97 mm). 8 engraved plates (frontispiece and last pasted to covers). (Text browned, chip on half-title along fore-edge.) Contemporary orange stiff (remainder?) wrappers; morocco slipcase. Second American edition. Rosenbach 616. (2)
32o (97 x 64 mm). Engraved woodcut frontispiece and 35 woodcuts in the text based on designs from the original Newbery version; advertisement leaf for other Thomas publications at end. Early 19th-century silver (remainder?) wrappers (a little chipping to spine, front wrapper with lower fore-corner chipped); morocco slipcase. Provenance: pencil ownership inscription on front free endpaper dated 1827; bookseller George M. Millard, Pasadena (catalogue description laid in); Estelle Doheny (her sale, part V, 21 February 1989, lot 1975).
EARLIEST AVAILABLE EDITION. Previously thought to be the first American edition, the Isaiah Thomas Worcester edition was preceded by the New York (Hugh Gaine) 1775, the Boston 1783, and the Philadelphia 1786 editions-known in only a handful of copies, and most incomplete. "Much has been written as to the authorship of Little Goody Two Shoes, and it is now usually attributed to Oliver Goldsmith" (Rosenbach). Evans 20412; Gumuchian 2753 (paired with the London 1767 fourth edition); Rosenbach 118; Welch 463.4.
[With:] The Tragi-Comic History of the Burial of Cock Robin Philadelphia: S. Probasco for Benjamin Warner, 1821. Square 8o (127 x 97 mm). 8 engraved plates (frontispiece and last pasted to covers). (Text browned, chip on half-title along fore-edge.) Contemporary orange stiff (remainder?) wrappers; morocco slipcase. Second American edition. Rosenbach 616. (2)