Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings shaker style extending the capacities of the

extending the capacities of the gills

with a split running horizontally from the right edge

And the pages themselves alternate between a lovely blue and sort of salmony-rose

Finding these was a revelation to me--I've never seen another set

or could be hung by the hole in his back

Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings shaker style extending the capacities of theA total joy finding these in Concord, NH this week: a complete first edition set of six volumes of "Early Lessons" by Maria Edgeworth, published by Robvert Desilver, Philadelphia, 1823 very early examples of books for children, and with the most charming hand colored engravings of any I've seen notably different in quality from those more commonly sees of several decades later. I especially love that both the stories and illustrations portray young