The History of the Celebrated Nanny Goose. From the original M.S.

Nanny Goose.   Etched frontispiece and five plates, all coloured by hand, title-page text incorporated in ornate decorative panel S.H. Cowell, Ipswich,  1865    8vo Loose in original pale green stiff wrappers with etched illustration and title to upper wrapper, cloth spine Binding with a little wear and soiling, some foxing and slight staining at inner margin (neither affecting plates) internally, but a nice copy and a remarkable survival of a rare and very fragile book  COPAC shows only editions of 1813 and 1840 (published in London and Wirkworth respectively) of this edition, whilst OCLC shows just two copies of this edition, one at the Library of Congress, the other at Princeton. 

Price: £350