Marmaduke Multiply, First Edition (1 results)

Uses instructive vignettes to illustrate the times tables from one through twelve. The simple rhymes include ÒSix times nine are fifty-four / My little boat has come ashoreÓ and ÒNine times nine are eighty-one / See how fast the horses run.Ó 4 in. x 5 in. 71, [1, ads] pp. With seventy engraved vignettes illustrating educational rhymes (e.g., a boy fishing to accompany ÒFour times eight are forty-eight / I wish that I could get some baitÓ). Also with an additional engraved title and printed floral borders on each page. Contemporary black cloth wrappers, rubbed, with spine of text block partially detached from gutter. Engraved title loose, laid in at original position. Some foxing, as usual. A good, sound copy of an uncommon and fragile educational item for children. First edition, fourth printing. Originally published by Munroe and Francis in 1838. All printings are uncommon. OCLC records eleven copies of this printing, fifteen of the 1839, and no more than a few copies of any other printing.