Darton, publishers.- R. (R.) The Good Boy's Soliloquy; containing his Parents' Instructions relative to his Disposition and Manners, first edition, 16 oval engraved plates, small ink spot to upper edge of frontispiece, one leaf slightly frayed at edges, original wood-engraved pictorial buff wrappers, upper cover with scene of encampment, lower with girl chasing a cat in a farmyard, upper cover with contemporary ink inscription "Henry G.G. Ludlove July 31 1813", very slightly rubbed, [Darton H1282 (1)], 16mo, W.Darton, Jun., 1811. ⁂ Rare. WorldCat lists only 2 copies, both in North America (Universities of Columbia, NY and Alberta, Canada). Darton adds another rebound copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library and states that the Columbia copy is imperfect. There are no copies in British libraries, the earliest edition in the British Library is that of the second edition of 1813. "A tongue-in-cheek call to virtue, cataloguing all the things a good boy should not do, the illusns [sic] showing him in the act of doing them". Darton
Darton, publishers.- R. (R.) The Good Boy's Soliloquy; containing his Parents' Instructions relative to his Disposition and Manners, first edition, 16 oval engraved plates, small ink spot to upper edge of frontispiece, one leaf slightly frayed at edges, original wood-engraved pictorial buff wrappers, upper cover with scene of encampment, lower with girl chasing a cat in a farmyard, upper cover with contemporary ink inscription "Henry G.G. Ludlove July 31 1813", very slightly rubbed, [Darton H1282 (1)], 16mo, W.Darton, Jun., 1811. ⁂ Rare. WorldCat lists only 2 copies, both in North America (Universities of Columbia, NY and Alberta, Canada). Darton adds another rebound copy in the Pierpont Morgan Library and states that the Columbia copy is imperfect. There are no copies in British libraries, the earliest edition in the British Library is that of the second edition of 1813. "A tongue-in-cheek call to virtue, cataloguing all the things a good boy should not do, the illusns [sic] showing him in the act of doing them". Darton
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