HISTORY OF ROME:; From the building of the city to the ruin of the republic. Illustrated with maps and other plates, for the schools and young persons. by Edward Baldwin (pseudonym)

12mo, pp. 210 + adv. Bound in little worn contemporary calf (front cover nearly separate) Illustrated with two folding maps and four engraved plates. A very good copy. With the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin found himself not only bereaved, but also the widower father of two children: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Later Shelley) and Fanny Imlay. His marriage to Mary Jane Godwin added three more. The Godwins started the M. J. Godwin publishing company to support their large family. St. Clair notes: Within a few years M. J. Godwin and Company had one of the strongest lists any children's publisher could wish to advertise[p. 292]. Godwin, Mary Jane, Mary Shelley and others within Godwin's circle provided the texts. Authors included Hazlitt, William Mylius, Eliza Fenwick, Lady Mountcashell, and the Lambs. While scholarship would suggest that these books were most popular, they are surprisingly rare in the trade.