Description
The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast. London: J. Harris, Jan. 1st 1807. 16mo. First edition, engraved throughout, 14 hand-coloured engraved illustrations, original buff wrappers with woodcuts on upper wrapper, inscribed on verso of front wrapper "Tho. Pinrudcloche (?) the gift of his Uncle Lowther Dec. 21 1808", small puncture mark in the very middle through entire book, some spotting and staining, chiefly to the end, [Osborne, p.76, referring to a "second issue, also published in 1807 had different illustrations and variations in text"], spine worn