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vii, [i], 124pp., 18mo. Engraved frontispiece and three plates (these a little spotted), woodcut illustrations throughout. Original green roan-backed buff boards, paper spine label partly chipped but the title, including "Price 2s" intelligible. Front free endpaper inscribed "The Gift of John Gifford Croker to William Creed 1814." The third edition, not so stated, in which the Darton firm had a share; the Darton firm also printed this edition. The Dartons first participation in this lucrative project was the 1798 edition; the work was first published by Newbery in 1761. The 1798 edition was criticized for passages containing "the equalizing spirit of the New Philosophy," and that spirit was further emphasized in revisions in an edition of 1806, here reprinted: Mr. Loiter "draws his large income from trafficking in Negroes, without feeling repugnance at separating husband and wife, parents and children." His wife, "on the other hand, passes her time in feeding parrots, cats, and monkeys, while she abandons her own offspring to the care of a hireling." The Dartons G928(3).