65, [1 (blank)], [2] ads, 36 pp. Hand colored frontispiece at both title pages, plus hand-colored plates. 13.9x8.5 cm. (5½x3¼"), contemporary calf, two gilt-bordered burgundy morocco spine labels, all edges colored yellow, gilt dentelles, original salmon-colored stiff printed paper wrappers bound in for both publications. Second Edition.

Two titles by the prolific Mrs. Cameron (1781-1858), sister of the more famous Mrs. Sherwood, who also authored numerous moral and religious stories for children. Cameron, who wrote her first book, The History of Margaret Whyte, at the age of seventeen, married the Reverend C.R. Cameron in 1806. He worked for twenty-five years in a Shropshire parish among the colliers of the district. She based many of her stories on factual incidents and occurrences. The attractive decorative binding is by W. Worsfold of London for C.P. Putnam's Sons. I. See The Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books: 1566-1910, I, pp. 236-237, listing the first edition of 1824 only. Surprisingly, this title (in any edition or translation) is not in the British Library Catalogue, which lists over 65 different titles by Cameron, as well as numerous different editions and translations of them. Not in the Gumuchian Catalogue of 15th to 19th Century Nursery Books, which lists several other titles by Cameron. II. See The Osborne Collection, I, p. 238, listing the eleventh edition of 1834 only. This first edition is also not in the British Library Catalogue, which lists the sixth, eighth, and twelfth editions only . Not in the Gumuchian Catalogue.