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The Talking Bird: or, Dame Trudge and her Parrot, London: J. Harris at the Original Juvenile Library, 1808. 16° (117 x 95mm.). Half title with publisher's advertisement on verso, 16 uncoloured engraved plates. (Light waterstain throughout, occasional spotting). Contemporary marbled stitched wrappers. (Rubbed and scuffed, a few small pieces torn away from edges). Provenance: Jonathan Higginson (early signature on half title). Second edition (first published in 1806). Osborne 1, 79 (calling for coloured plates).
With 6 other late 18th and 19th-century children's books including ?Mrs Trimmer's A Series of Prints of Ancient History, designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which Children receive the first Rudiments of their Education (London, 1788), Whimsical Incidents: or the Power of Music, a Poetic Tale: by a near Relation of Old Mother Hubbard (London, 1803, rather worn) and Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians (London, [1817], defective) and Our Oriental Kingdom ... by Peter Parley (London, [n.d.]). The lot sold not subject to return. (9)
With 6 other late 18th and 19th-century children's books including ?Mrs Trimmer's A Series of Prints of Ancient History, designed as Ornaments for those Apartments in which Children receive the first Rudiments of their Education (London, 1788), Whimsical Incidents: or the Power of Music, a Poetic Tale: by a near Relation of Old Mother Hubbard (London, 1803, rather worn) and Marmaduke Multiply's Merry Method of Making Minor Mathematicians (London, [1817], defective) and Our Oriental Kingdom ... by Peter Parley (London, [n.d.]). The lot sold not subject to return. (9)