First Set Catechisms Prayers by Watts Isaac (2 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Undated, the British Library date this is a 31-page tract / chapbook to circa 1840, published in Derby. Light creasing wear else in good condition. is a lighter item, shipping costs will be reduced accordingly at checkout.

Paperback. Condition: Good. First edition. Two lovely pocket-sized nineteenth-century children's works, adorned with various woodcut illustrations. Two pocket-sized children's works in the original paper wraps.Catechismsis made up of questions and answers regarding the Christian faith for 'the religion of little children', accompanied by some example prayers. Illustrated with a frontispiece.Gingerbread, from York publisher J. Kendrew, is a story of a little boy learning to read with the help of an alphabet book made of gingerbread. Gingerbread hornbooks were 'a time-honored way of encouraging literacy in early modern England.' Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece and eleven further in-text woodcut illustrations. In the original paper wraps.Externally, sound. Wraps are age toned with the odd spot. Edge wear and creasing to extremities of paper boards. The odd small chip to lower board of Gingerbread. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned with the odd tide mark to Gingerbread. One publisher's advertisement to rear boards of both volumes. Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…