12mo. xii, 132pp. With a half-title and an engraved frontispiece. Original publisher's green roan-backed marbled paper boards. Rubbed, corners exposed, remnants of printed paper lettering-piece to spine. Early inked inscription to recto of FFEP: 'David Allen the gift of his dear Mamma.'

A rare survival of the sole edition of George Brewer's (bap. 1766) adaptation, for a juvenile readership, of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's Pizzarro (1799); itself inspired by August von Kotzebue's dramatization of the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, Die Spanier in Peru (1796).

The Monthly Mirror (Vol. IX, February, 1800) reviewed the work favourably: 'these entertaining pages will be warmly patronized, since they tend to store the youthful mind with a new treasure of ideas, that may assist them to make just inferences, and to avoid the early prejudices of passion and inclination, which may mislead into false judgments and errors, detrimental to their future interests in life. Six short apologues are subjoined to the Life of Rolla, in which the fiction is pleasing, and the morality sound.'

ESTC records copies at two locations in the British Isles (BL and Oxford), and four further in North America (California, Florida, Indiana, and Toronto).