The Monkey's Frolic. A Humorous Tale

Juvenile

Published by Griffith and Farran, London, 1856

About this Item

Not dated but c 1856 12mo, (16) leaves including covers, printed on one side only (covers excepted) and backed onto linen. 16 hand coloured wood engraved illustrations with verse below, some slight thumbing and general overall browning of the paper. Bound in original printed orange wrappers, with a new spine, margins trimmed with loss of page numbers on some sheets; all the pages are slightly discolored with some minor foxing; two facing sheets with a dark brown stain in lower margins affecting the last line of text. A good/ very copy. The Monkeys Frolic is about a Monkey who teases a cat eventually falling from the roof with the cat in tow, giving a sick man in bed a terrible fright, who suddenly and miraculously is cured of gout. Originally published by John Harris, circa 1820, Grant & Griffith succeeded John Harris circa 1835, and may have used the original John Harris wood blocks and typefaces for this edition. Grant & Griffith later changed to Griffith and Farran in 1856. The Monkey s Frolic was the 37th title issued in Harris's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction, the first having been The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, of which Harris boasted that in a few months of its first publication in 1805 he had sold 10,000 copies. Moon 552.

Seller Inventory # 6000205

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Monkey's Frolic. A Humorous Tale
• Publisher: Griffith and Farran, London
• Publication Date: 1856
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good +
• Seller catalogs:
  • Children's Books Pre 1870