Legal & Fables.- Fawcett (John, barrister and attorney, of Petteril Bank, Upperby, near Carlisle, 1797-1883) & Sophia Alice Fawcett, daughter, novelist, author of "Blue Eyes or Brown? (1878)", 1843-90. Highways - Bridges - Sessions- County Rate [Legal notes & fables], autograph manuscripts signed by Sophia Alice Fawcett, together c. 300pp. (c. 117pp. all or in part in John Fawcett's autograph & c. 227pp. all or in part Sophia Alice Fawcett's autograph& 10pp. of pen and ink drawings, 2ff. excised, first 17pp. slightly water-stained, original roan, slightly rubbed, brass clasp, joints splitting, spine rubbed, 165 x 101mm., [c. 1840] & dated in text 1870.
⁂ Fables by Sophia Alice Fawcett, including: "The Ass & the Woolf"; "The Oak & the Sycamore"; "The Wolf & the Sick Ass"; "The Child & the Butterfly"; "The Two Trouts & the Gudgeon"; "The Kite & the Nightingale"; "The Raven & the Hawk"; "The Tulip & the Rose"; "The duped Fox"; "The Butterfly & the Bee"; "The Lion, the Wolf & the Fox" etc.
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