Easy Lessons Leading Strings Knowledge by Mrs Trimmer (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Poor condition HC, no DJ. Original paper covers and spine over cloth over boards. Covers and spine complete but for chipping along edges; rubbing wear at cover fore corners, boards exposed; loosely bound - almost disbound; numerous leaves lacking (50+ pp); title page lacking - publication info from covers; several leaves torn with portions lacking; 12 plates present (of 16?). Note: cover title is 'Mrs. Trimmer's | Leading | Strings | to | Knowledge | Boston | 1834' - there is no 'Easy Lessons' or publisher name present. Title and publisher name is presumed from OCLC #270107991 listing (1836). 24mo, 222 pp (complete; this copy lacking many pp).

Cloth. Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). Delightfully illustrated with engraved plates, this is a charming and scarce children's educational work from educational reformer Sarah Trimmer. A scarce work, which was first published in 1825.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen engraved plates. Collated, complete.Sarah Trimmer, an English writer and critic, and an educational reformer, has authored this delightful educational work, arranged in lessons, and aiming to teach children and aiming to teach children to read in a series of advancingly complex short stories.With the inscription 'Harriet Collett, the gift of her Great Aunt, Mrs Curtis' to the front free endpaper.A truly delightful, scarce work. In a cloth binding, with title label to centre of front board. Significant rubbing to joints and back strip head and tail, with small loss of cloth to back strip head. Hinges strained, with rear board just a touch tender. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound, but with final gathering working loose. Pages clean and bright, with the odd spot to plates. Good. book.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. 10,5X13,5 cm; publisher's green cloth binding, tight, a little wear at edges, spine a little sunned; inside very good, a new edition with sixteen engravings; 228 pages followed by the publisher's catalogue.