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The Cabinet of Lilliput. Stored with instruction and delight. London: for J. Harris, 1802.
12 volumes, 64 x 62mm., each with engraved frontispiece. (Volume of Rashness wormed toward lower margin in first 17 leaves, outer margin of last leaf in last work cropped, a few leaves slightly browned.) Original boards, oval printed label on upper covers. In the original wooden box in four compartments, the sliding front with hand-coloured engraved title by S. Springsguth (carved openwork headpiece of cover damaged).
A child's miniature library complete in unusually good condition. 'The Cabinet's delightful pictorial lid, the brightly-covered miniature booklets and their pretty frontispiece combine to raise hopes that the stories may equally appealing to little children' Moon 107.
12 volumes, 64 x 62mm., each with engraved frontispiece. (Volume of Rashness wormed toward lower margin in first 17 leaves, outer margin of last leaf in last work cropped, a few leaves slightly browned.) Original boards, oval printed label on upper covers. In the original wooden box in four compartments, the sliding front with hand-coloured engraved title by S. Springsguth (carved openwork headpiece of cover damaged).
A child's miniature library complete in unusually good condition. 'The Cabinet's delightful pictorial lid, the brightly-covered miniature booklets and their pretty frontispiece combine to raise hopes that the stories may equally appealing to little children' Moon 107.