16mo. 15pp, [1]. Wrappers included in pagination. Frontispiece and final leaf pasted to inside of upper and lower covers respectively, as issued. Original publisher's printed tan wrappers. Inked ownership inscription to head of upper cover, Lightly creased and spotted. Internally clean and crisp.

A juvenile chapbook by influential children's writer, and prolific author for publishers Houlston and Stoneman, Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851), that encourages its readership to show compassion towards animals through the narrative of four young children who purchase a caged dove and are convinced to release it by their kindly father who is keen to relate the biblical significance of the bird.