Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings primitive cooking dish Initialed EMB it appears and

Initialed EMB it appears and dated 1903 at lower right

I especially like the flip side

which make it seems look as if a creature of the water

but I think I'd I give it pride of place just as it is

Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings primitive cooking dish Initialed EMB it appears andA total joy finding these in Concord, NH this week: a complete first edition set of six volumes of "Early Lessons" by Maria Edgeworth, published by Robvert Desilver, Philadelphia, 1823 very early examples of books for children, and with the most charming hand colored engravings of any I've seen notably different in quality from those more commonly sees of several decades later. I especially love that both the stories and illustrations portray young