[The Royal Museum. 1812 ?]. 16° (132 x 97mm). Collation: [A.6] 53 wood engravings, or portions thereof (out of ?), with letterpress headings to each page and titles, or verse, beside many of the engravings (lacking A1:16, 3:14, 5:12; the remaining pages grubby and stained with several mutilated or torn and repaired with tissue). Original orange (?) printed wrappers with "A Well-known Carver. Fleet Market, 1812" on upper cover, and "Daniel. Supposed to be the largest man ever known" on lower (oversewn, dirty). Despite its deplorable condition this book has a status as one of only two known copies; the other, in California, is complete and has an 1813 title-page, but lacks covers. As a "museum", the book consists of a random selection from Darton's stock of wood engravings, many used in his Nosegay for the Trouble of Culling (1813), and two from the London Melodies (below). The two engravings on the cover first appeared in the Portraits of Curious Characters (1806) but the Fleet Market date is now changed from 1806 to 1812. -- London Melodies; or, cries of the seasons. Part I. London: printed by William Darton, Jun...n.d. [1812]. Collation: A<B.2. The Preface signed "Highgate, 1812". Wood engraving on title-page and eighteen wood engravings of street-traders, with verses and descriptions, and six smaller cuts (leaves a little careworn and foxed). Original yellow printed wrappers, advertisements on back (grubby, with some surface damage). David p.60. -- "Mrs. LOVECHILD". The Mother's First Book for Little Children: accompanied with engravings...By Mrs. Lovechild. London: William Darton...sold also by Harvey and Darton...and John Harris n.d. [ca.1820]. 8° (160 x 113mm). A single gathering of 32 leaves, unsigned. Advertisements on verso of the title-page, the remaining 62 pages alternate between letterpress alphabets, syllabaries etc. and single or multiple groups of wood engravings. Original lilac printed wrappers, advertisements on back, mint. Provenance: To the little Dutchman from his Cousin Mary Girven. Moon: Harris 507AA, listing only this copy. Although "Mrs. Lovechild" was sometimes used as a pseudonym by Ellenor Fenn, the fairly primitive instruction afforded here does not suggest her editiorial hand. Mrs. Moon notes that "some -and probably all- of the plates appeared in other Darton books [cf. the two above]. They bear no relation to the text..." (3)