Winter; Or The Comforts Of A Fire-Side. With Twelve Engravings Anonymous

A very charming little children's book written to wile away the dreary hours of winter in Great Britain. It is written as a brief narrative of parents to children, explaining geography and world voyages, and peppered with moral advice throughout. Mom and Dad talk the about the terrible winters in Lapland and Russia, and the extreme weather in the heart of Africa. The story is punctuated throughout with lovely hand-colored wood-cuts jump-rope, rocking horse, etc. 12mo (13.5 x 8.5), frontispiece, title-page, 47pp. (12 engravings in text). Bound in original wrappers - wrappers soiled and water-stained, but interior is excellent. Spine splitting, verso of title has a effaced (second?) frontispiece engraving. Ownership inscription on title-page - "Elizabeth Beed 1811" - and gift inscription by the same Miss Beed to Fanny Knight on frontispiece - "Fanny Knight from Miss Beed 1850". Quite rare - I could locate copies only at Harvard, Princeton, and Indiana. [NUC pre-1956, 668:484 Gumuchian 5846 Cf. Osborne Coll., II, p. 957]