Peter Prim's Profitable Present to the Little Misses and Masters of the United Kingdom. London: by J. Harris, 17th December 1809.

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Peter Prim's Profitable Present to the Little Misses and Masters of the United Kingdom. London: by J. Harris, 17th December 1809.

16° (120 x 90mm). Etched plate printed on one side of a sheet, 16 leaves, each with hand-coloured illustration and 3-line verse, incipit: Come buckle my shoe. (Slightly soiled.) Quarter roan (original printed wrappers lacking). Provenance: Edgar Oppenheimer (sale 21 April 1977 lot 2009; Kit Robbins (sale 19 March 1981 lot 250).

This impression not issued before 1811 (watermark date). The colouring was probably done at the publisher's. Moon H-681.

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