Beschreibung:

Lumsden & Co., Glasgow, publisher. Collection of 4 chapbooks in 1 vol., comprising: The Rise of Learning... by Mrs Winlove; Gammer Gurton's Garland of Nursery Songs and Toby Tickle's Collection of Riddles. Compiled by Peter Puzzlecap; Cottage Tales; The Child's Instructor, or Picture Alphabet, woodcut illustrations, contemporary green morocco gilt, publisher's coloured wrappers bound in, 103 x 60mm.[c.1810-1820]--J.G. Rusher, Banbury, publisher. Collection of 13 chapbooks in 1 vol., comprising: The Galloping Guide to the ABC; Anecdotes for Good Children; The Rhyming Riddler's Riddle Book; The Diverting History of John Gilpin; Dr. Watts's Divine Songs, for Children; The Entertaining History of Dick Whittington; The Children in the Wood; The Good Farmer (leaves misbound); The Trial of an Ox for Killing a Man; Poetic Trifles, or Pretty Poems; The Adventures of a Halfpenny Commonly Called a Birmingham Halfpenny; The New House that Jack Built; Short Stories; Dr. Watts's Moral Songs, for Children, each 8 leaves, numerous woodcut illustrations, untrimmed in contemporary calf gilt, publisher's pictorial coloured wrappers bound in, 117 x 63mm., [c.1830s] (2)