Richardson’s New Reading Made Easy; containing a great variety of easy spelling and reading lessons; also a short course of moral stories, which are illustrated by appropriate wood engravings and intended both to please and instruct; to which are added the Church Catechism, and several divine hymns, &c

Richardson (Thomas).  Wood-engraved frontispiece, title-vignette and illustrations throughout, and two full-page wood-engravings each showing eighteen objects (magpie, wren, owl etc.) with their names, also including alphabets and lists of syllables  Thomas Richardson, Derby; Simpkin and Marshall, London,  1834 Second Edition   12mo Original quarter leather, yellow printed boards, the upper board with wood-engraving Lower board detached and upper board virtually so, spine partly missing, some soiling to the boards but internally a very nice, clean copy of this fragile publication  Very rare: none on OCLC, one undated on COPAC, which must presumably be the first edition of c.1820. According to the advertisement this edition includes a good deal of additional material. The pagination would indicate that a leaf is missing but the first and last signatures each consist of five leaves and we are convinced that there is no lacuna. The engravings are exceptionally charming.  

Price: £600