Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
Fine Manuscript and Printed Americana
Auction Closed
January 27, 09:56 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
[CHILDREN'S BOOKS]
[BARBAULD, ANNA LETITIA]. LESSONS FOR CHILDREN OF FOUR YEARS OLD. PART II. PHILADELPHIA: PRINTED FOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BACHE, 1788
12mo (3 7/8 x 3 1/2 in.; 100 x 89 mm). Some spotting and foxing. Dutch gilt pink wrappers with ornithological design; covers detached, portion of paper backstrip missing.
Rare. Only 5 copies located by Welch and rarer than Part I.
Printed under Benjamin Franklin's tutelage by his grandson B. F. Bache. The same year, Bache published Part I and several other titles by Barbauld, who wrote the most popular children's readers of her day. Bache Americanized the text of these works.
LITERATURE:
Evans 20947 (Part II only); Rosenbach 126 (Part II only); Welch 61.2