The Uncle's Present, a New Battledoor [sic] Board books - Specimens RARE #000922

RARE #000922

Color pictorial beige stiff paper wrappers with the spine covered with light brown paper as issued

DECALCOMANIES MAGIQUES

fading to photographer's imprint and minor damp staining along bottom edge

(Alphabet) THE GHOSTIES & GHOULIES & THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT ABC

The Uncle's Present, a New Battledoor [sic] Board books - Specimens RARE #000922(Battledores) The Uncle's Present, a New Battledoor [sic]. Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson, 147 Market Street, [between 1810 1815]. FIRST EDITION. 16mo 6 7 16" x 3 13 16". Russet stiff paper self wrappers, formed like an envelope, with a flap that folds over the fore edge of the book, with upper case alphabet above a central image of sheep by a tree, with numerals followed by publication information below, and with "READ, AND BE WISE" in the