Easy Lessons; Or, Leading Strings to Knowledge

Delightfully illustrated with engraved plates, this is a charming and scarce children's educational work from educational reformer Sarah Trimmer. A scarce work, which was first published in 1825.Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen engraved plates. Collated, complete.Sarah Trimmer, an English writer and critic, and an educational reformer, has authored this delightful educational work, arranged in lessons, and aiming to teach children and aiming to teach children to read in a series of advancingly complex short stories.With the inscription 'Harriet Collett, the gift of her Great Aunt, Mrs Curtis' to the front free endpaper.A truly delightful, scarce work. In a cloth binding, with title label to centre of front board. Significant rubbing to joints and back strip head and tail, with small loss of cloth to back strip head. Hinges strained, with rear board just a touch tender. Inscription to front pastedown. Internally, firmly bound, but with final gathering working loose. Pages clean and bright, with the odd spot to plates. Good.…