[CHILDREN] WILLIAM BARTLETT OR THE GOOD SON, THE CONTESTED SEAT, LESSONS OF THE STARS, AND WHO IS THE HAPPIEST GIRL

Philadelphia: Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1856. Quarter Leather. Good binding. 16mo.; quarter black morocco over marbled boards; [2],- 108 pages, with frontispiece "How is that you are not at school, William?"; a worn copy with contemporary ownership marks and scribbles; Sunday School presentation label on the pastedown mostly effaced; worn with stains and foxing.~~The pseudonymous edifying works for children are by the evangelical Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, J. C. [John Charles] Ryle.~~The book is uncommon in commerce and we find but a handful of institutional holdings.~~. Good binding.