16mo (114 x 95 mm). 14 hand-colored copperplate engravings. (Some light spotting and offsetting, a few tiny pencil annotations.) Later decorative printed wraps (very light soiling). 

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE with 1806 watermark on final leaf. The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast first appeared in the November 1806 edition of The Gentleman's Magazine and was "the first of a special kind of airy revel in children's books...and tapped a vein that would ultimately lead to the fantasies of Lewis Carroll and the elfin world of Richard Doyle" (Morgan Library 159). Darton, 199; Muir 100.