Author: Berens,E) (but no author named) With plates by George Cruikshank
Title: CHRISTMAS STORIES containing John Wildgoose the Poacher, The Smuggler, and Good-Natue, or Parish Matters
Description: Oxford, Parker, Rivington 2nd edition 1827 Etched plates (3) by George Cruikshank . Duodecimo mottled calf (hinges cracked and covers held by cords/tips worn/Blindstamp of the Society for Christian Knowledge) 159pp some browning/staining to first pages of each story. Early library label on FEP. Half title present but lacks most of one of two free rear end papers. *First and last stories are followed by factual matter, in the case of the Poacher by extracts of Parliamentary law in the case of Parish Matters by several extracts from Benjamin Franklin's letters and works.

Keywords: moral stories


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