12mo. In three volumes. [4], 330, [2]; [2], 330; [2], 343pp, [1]. With a final leaf of advertisements to Vol. I. Contemporary black half-calf, marbled boards, gilt. Extremities rubbed, corners bumped. Marbled endpapers, bookplates of Coker Court to FEPs, some loss to text of leaves I10-K1 of Vol. III - with partial loss of sense, very occasional chipping to margins, lightly foxed.

An early collection of juvenile fiction by Irish novelist and educational writer Maria Edgeworth (1768- 1849), first published in 1804. Her father and sometime collaborator, Robert Lovell Edgeworth (1744- 1817), provides prefatory remarks on the increasing popularity of reading in England.