The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes. Embellished with elegant cuts. Gainsborough: printed by H. Mozley...1805.

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The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes. Embellished with elegant cuts. Gainsborough: printed by H. Mozley...1805.

12° in sixes (112 x 80mm). Collation: A-F°6. Wood engraved frontispiece and title-page illustration, with 17 oval wood engravings in the text, one a repeat of that on the title-page. Dutch flowered paper over boards (somewhat rubbed), housed in a green linen case with marbled paper lining. Provenance: Mary Hilditch. A & M no.67.

Henry Mozley sought to order material from Thomas Bewick during the early years of the nineteenth century, and these wood engravings may come from the Bewick workshop.

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