THE PEEP OF DAY or a Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind is Capable of Receiving. With Verses Illustrative of the Subjects. Authorised Edition New Edition

Plates (13) including gold printed title plate dated 1892 which says at foot "illustrated by MAB" (monogram). Square octavo blue gilt cloth with daisies to cover & spine (tips worn/rubbed & darkened especially to spine but gilt still bright) vi +[2]pp plate list & blank +184pp. Lacks front free endpaper & pastedown torn, one leaf with corner creased some foxing/fingering. Thus signs of use but neat and tight with no torn pages, no scribbling. *Mrs. Mortimer wrote a series of these early religious instruction books in the 1830's, in a small format with b/w engravings in the text. These were in print down to the early 1900's as they were popular prizes for Sunday schools etc. but by the 1870's Hatchards seems to have given up publishing except as an outlet seller for other publishers. Thus this title, still in great demand was published by Nelson, Whittaker, Religious Tract Society and others. Each added their own various illustrations, as here with Longmans, and thus continued the popularity of the book long after Mrs. Mortimer's death in 1878. 1 volume.…