Juvenile Stories and Dialogues, composed chiefly in words of two syllables, for the use of schools and young readers. London: printed for J. Harris...1807. 12° (132 x 82mm). Last 2 leaves a Harris catalogue; copper-engraved frontispiece by B. Thomson after Thurston, dated for Vernor and Hood, May 1.t 1799. (Frontispiece with diagonal tear at outer edge, a little colouring, and ink penentration from inscription on recto). Green roan-backed marbled boards (back very tatty, paper missing from top board, soggy and loose). Provenance: Mary Pearse her book 1808; Mary Pearse Bedford 1813 (inscription with the message "My Dear Thomas I Wish you Were at home."). Moon 437: 2 copies only, but noting first publication in 1799 by Vernor and Hood. Mrs. Moon has included a note on the "touching inscription". - 4 farther Harris books of a didactive nature: Moon 224A (the only copy), 313, 480(A1) (the only copy), and 685(2) (the only copy); - 3 bound-up story collections, one with the artist's grey wash original of the frontispiece bound in to face it: Moon 493(2). (8)