The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast

by William Roscoe · language: en

THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL, AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST.

LONDON: Printed for J. HARRIS, Successor to E. NEWBERY, at the Original Juvenile Library, the Corner of St. Paul's Church Yard.

Printed on Hand-made Paper, bound in characteristic style, with uncut edges, price Half-a-Crown, GOODY TWO-SHOES A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE EDITION OF 1766 WITH AN INTRODUCTION GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF THE BOOK AND SOME SPECULATIONS AS TO ITS AUTHORSHIP BY CHARLES WELSH "The facsimile of 'Goody Two-Shoes,' which Mr Welsh has edited, and Messrs Griffith and Farran published, might be classed among the Christmas books of the season, but it deserves more extended notice, as reproducing a volume which, if hardly known to the present generation, ranks among English Classics.

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