Sign up to receive email notices of recent acquisitions.

The History of Little Goody Twoshoes; Otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes. With the means by which she acquired her learning and wisdom, and in consequence thereof her estate.... See the original manuscript in the Vatican at Rome, and the cuts by Michael Angelo; illustrated with the comments of our great modern criticks. The first Worcester edition.

Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts. By Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his book store., MDCCLXXXVII [1787]. 32mo, plain gray wrappers. 158, [2] p., numerous wood-engravings.

The first Worcester edition of this children’s classic first published in London in 1765, as part of John Newbery’s Lilliputian library. The first American edition appeared in New York in 1775. A rare 18th century American children’s book.

REFERENCES: Welch 463.4; Rosenbach 118.

CONDITION: Good, wrappers rubbed, chipping at head and foot of spine.

Item #2506

Sold