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birds, etc., talk, or appear so to do, for the
amusement and instruction of children." In the National Collection is
"The Valentine's Gift, or a Plan to enable children of all sizes and
denomination to behave with honour, integrity, and humanity, very
necessary to a trading nation: to which is added some account of Old
Zigzag, and of the Horn with which he used to understand the language
of birds, beasts, fishes and insects," etc., "Printed for Francis Power,
(grandson to the late Mr. J. Newbery) and Co., No. 65, St. Paul's
Churchyard, 1790, price sixpence, bound in gilt dutch paper binding,
105 and iii pages".
Numerous books were sold by Francis Power, No. 65, near the Bar, in
St. Paul's Churchyard, London; his list comprises "Giles Gingerbread,"
"Tom Thumb's Folio," "The London Cries, taken from the Life," "The

Lilliputian Auction," by Charley Chatter, "Nurse Truelove's Christmas
Box," "New Year's Gift," "The History of Little Goody Two Shoes,"
new edition, "Adventures of a Bee," "The Little Lottery Book," "A
Pretty Plaything for Children," "The Lilliputian Magazine," "The
Picture Exhibition," "Lilliputian Masquerade," "Juvenile Trials for
Robbing Orchards and Telling Fibs," "Pretty Poems by Tommy Tagg,
for children three feet high," "A Pretty Book of Pictures, or Tommy
Tripp's History," "The Drawing School by Master Angelo," "Poetical
Flower Garden," "Tommy Trapwit's Be Merry and Wise," "Lecture
upon Toys," 2 vols; "Pretty Poems for children six feet high," "The
Museum," "Polite Academy," "Poetical Flower Basket," "Mother
Goose's Fairy Tales," "A Spelling Dictionary, Rhetoric; Logic;
Arithmetic; History; Chronology; Geography;" "Vicar of Wakefield."
Most of the latter except "Vicar" formed a circle of the sciences
licensed by approval of the King, each dedicated to a youthful
nobleman, by "John Newbery." The size was "snuffbox," or waistcoat
pocket (capacious in 1790, see "School for Scandal," etc., Costume,
etc.) Documentary evidence and receipts in Goldsmith's handwriting,
acknowledging various sums for writing the "Rhetorick," and others of
the above exist. Goldsmith also did numerous Abridgements of the Old
and New Testaments, Robinson Crusoe, Pamela, Clarissa Harlow, Sir
Chas. Grandison, all in this juvenile series for J. Newbery.
[Illustration: 121 The Spider, from Bunyan's Divine Emblems.]
This was a most popular juvenile brochure, at end of eighteenth
century. The early editions of J. Bunyan's Works, 2 vols, folio, had the
Divine Emblems at end of vol 2, with quaint old woodcuts. These were
industriously copied in reduced sizes, and published from 1d. to 6d., by
various London and Provincial "toy book" manufacturers. The above is
a solitary representative of the illustrations of one of these rare
editions of "Bunyan."
[Illustrations: 122, 123
From Evans's Cock Robin. Frontispiece to Farthing Cinderella.]
[Illustrations: 131, 132

Tobacco Paper Cut and Tavern Sign. Very Early Ballad, D----l cut,
etc.]
John Evans, 42, Long Lane, West Smithfield, circa 1791, brought out
some singular little farthing children's books, printed on coarse sugar
paper, also ballads, single-sheet songs, and "patters." One, "The
tragical death of an Apple Pye, cut in pieces and eat, by twenty-five
gentlemen, with whom all little people ought to be very well
acquainted."
J. Drewey, Irongate, Derby, brought out some entertaining fables, in
which the following woodcuts were used again.
Blocks used in Red Riding Hood.
[Illustrations: 141 - 146]
Blocks used in "Jack and the Giants" and "Tom, Tom, the Piper's son,"
etc. From John White's stock, at York.
[Illustrations: 151 - 1515]
Cuts used for "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son," etc.
[Illustrations: 161 - 166]
Cuts to "Whittington and his Cat."
[Illustrations: 167 - 1610]
John Evans issued "Cock Robin, a pretty gilded toy for either girl or
boy," in which the early cut on page 12 was used. This rare edition has
the following comical variation from the orthodox version:
"Little Robin Redbreast sat upon a pole, Wiggle-waggle went its tail,
and p--p went its hole."
Very Early Cock Robin Set, from John White's York Stock.

[Illustrations: 171 - 1710]
That quaint divine Dean Swift of St. Patricks, Dublin, edited some
curious poetry for "A Royal Primer," sqr. 32mo, published in the Seven
Dials, of Dublin ("Rainbow Court").
"Ech, ech, my dear'y, and Ach, ach, my love. "There was a little man
who had a little gun, and "There was a little maid who was very much
afraid To get wed, wed, wed," etc.
This is long and curious, and was greatly altered and abreviated in
early 19th Century Editions.
"The Royal Primer," from John White's York and Newcastle Stock.
[Illustrations: 181 - 1812]
From Dean Swift's Royal Primer, Dublin, circa 1770.
[Illustrations: 191 - 197]
From Evans's edition of Cinderella.
[Illustrations: 198 - 1911]
Very Early "Cock Robin" Series, "Postboy" by Bewick for a Newcastle
Newspaper, "Wife Joan," etc., from J. White's Stock.
[Illustrations: 201 - 2015]
Early "Mother Hubbard:" J. Evans, Long Lane, circa 1770.
[Illustrations: 211 - 2110]
Early