The Only True Mother Goose Melodies, without addition or abridgment. Embracing, also, a Reliable Life of the Goose Family, Never Before Published

Boston: G.W. Cottrell, 1833. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Early edition, uncommon. (Priced with condition in mind.) Copyright date listed on title page as 1833 by Monroe & Francis. With numerous handcolored illustrations. Bound in the original blue cloth boards with gilt title to front board. Large split to book cloth along front hinge and spine. Split has amateur glue repair along exterior. Interior hinges have been reinforced with pasted down paper strips. Rubbing and a few spots of soiling to boards. Wear to corners, edges, and spine ends. Pen and pencil markings to endpapers. Spots of foxing, soiling, browning, antiquated pen notations, and dampstaining to interior. Missing pages 11/12, 13/14, 15/16, 17/18, 19/20, 21/22, 41/42, and 55/56. Large open tear to one page. 96 pages including one page advertisement. CHILD/080423.