17470 Children's Titles This is a facsimile of

This is a facsimile of the first edition

but the illustrations are gorgeous and unusual

Drawing on recent research into urban history

Otherwise tight

many and one

17470 Children's Titles This is a facsimile ofBarbauld [1743 1825] was a political writer, poet, teacher, essayist, edictor and critic. Running a school with her husband in a Suffolk village, she revolutionized the nation's ideas about childhood with books she wrote that sold thousands. Living in the time of the American and French Revolutions, Napoleonic Wars, and struggles for religious equality, she strove to defend Enlightenment principles with her essays, and political writings. Wordsworth