London: Published by Darton and Harvey, June 14, 1798. First edition. 12mo. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved frontispiece, hand-colored vignette title-page, eight full-page hand-colored engravings, 16 hand-colored in-text engravings, and two hand-colored engraved tail-pieces. Full speckled brown calf, red morocco spine label, decorated in gilt, front board detached, rubbing to extremities and joints, spine dry and chipped, boards scratched and rubbed; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Darton G226

Rare hand-colored first edition of this charming and popular juvenile, written and illustrated by English children's book publisher, William Darton (1755-1819).

Fully hand-colored copies are very uncommon, and we cannot locate one in the available auction records.