[Children's Books]. [Barbauld, Anna Letitia]. Lessons for Children of Four Years Old. Part II. Philadelphia, 1788

[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