[Fenwick (Eliza) Six Stories for the Nursery...By a Mother], first edition, lacking title, with 6 hand-coloured engraved plates, 12pp. publisher's catalogue at end, rather foxed and soiled, pencil scribbles to verso of plates, first leaf with short tear to inner margin affecting a few letters, another to outer margin with old stitched repair, final leaf with chip to fore-edge, hinges repaired, contemporary half roan over original printed boards, rubbed, spine worn, old fabric sticker to lower cover, [1819] § [Lamb (Charles & Mary)] Mrs. Leicester's School, third edition, engraved frontispiece, 4pp. catalogue at end, frontispiece stained and offset, browned, hinges reinforced, contemporary tree calf, rather worn, spine defective, 1810, M.J.Godwin at the Juvenile Library; and 2 others from the Juvenile Library, 12mo (4)
⁂ Eliza Fenwick was the shop manager for Mary Godwin at 41 Skinner St. and wrote several children's educational works for her, using words of only one or two syllables and the two-syllable words hyphenated for easy reading. Library Hub cites only one copy (Cambridge University).
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