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The Careful Parent's Gift. Being a collection of short stories to improve the mind and mend the heart...London: printed and sold by John Marshall and Co. at No.4 Aldermary Church Yard n.d. [c.1785].
24° in eights (103 x 62mm). Collation: A-E8. 19 (of 23) full-page soft-metal relief engraving; (A1 pastedown ? lacks A2:7; A8; B1:8; C1:8; E1; E8; pastedown advertisement). Colour-dabbed paper over boards (very worn, repaired at spine with imitation flowered paper). Provenance: [on verso of title-page] Comben Christopher Byitt Comben Christopher Christopher Byatt Comben His Book God Bless him Amen. [On verso of E7] Children Christopher Byatt Byatt Comben his Book Mey 25 1788.
An adaptated re-publication of one of the earliest secular story-books for young children: A Christmass-Box, published by M. Boreman and M. Cooper, 1746. See Alderson The Ludford Box no. 1-2c. ESTC records 2 copies only, both in the U.S.
24° in eights (103 x 62mm). Collation: A-E8. 19 (of 23) full-page soft-metal relief engraving; (A1 pastedown ? lacks A2:7; A8; B1:8; C1:8; E1; E8; pastedown advertisement). Colour-dabbed paper over boards (very worn, repaired at spine with imitation flowered paper). Provenance: [on verso of title-page] Comben Christopher Byitt Comben Christopher Christopher Byatt Comben His Book God Bless him Amen. [On verso of E7] Children Christopher Byatt Byatt Comben his Book Mey 25 1788.
An adaptated re-publication of one of the earliest secular story-books for young children: A Christmass-Box, published by M. Boreman and M. Cooper, 1746. See Alderson The Ludford Box no. 1-2c. ESTC records 2 copies only, both in the U.S.