Moral Tales. In Two Volumes by Edgeworth, Maria - 1832

New York: Peter Hill. Good. 1833. 1/4 leather. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 533 pages; 1833 Peter Hill, NY. In two volumes complete. Uniformly bound in quarter red leather backed paper covered boards. Gilt rules, titles and vol numbers directly in gilt to leather. Prior ownership of a liberal arts university philosophical scoiety with bookplates to front pastedowns and period small paper labels to spines. Ownership notes in pen and pencil to bookplates and front endpages. Bindings sound but tender. Rear endpages missing from Vol I. Small chip missing from leather base of spine vol II/ Boards rubbed with flaking and loss of paper on edges. Illustrated with some woodcuts. Good only .

NY : Harper & Brothers, 1835. Stereotype edition. Softcover. Poor copy, wear and tear as with age. Boards detached. Text remains in fine condition. Physical description; 2 v in 1, 18cm. Subjects; English literature -- 19th century.

London: Baldwin and Cradock. 1832. Two volumes (complete in themselves, issued as part of colected works of eighteen volumes), Octavo, original cloth boards, engraved frontispiece plate and title page vignette both volumes, pp vii, 333, ii; i, i, 332. Frontis plates and title pages foxed, previous owner's signature title pages, losed tear second page of preface, boards worn, mark upper corner vol. I. Good condition. Maria Edgeworth (1767 - 1849) was an Anglo-Irish writer, known for her children's stories and for her novels of Irish life. She is considered one of the most influential authors of children's books, "bridging the gap between the supposedly dry, didactic children's literature of the eighteenth century and the livelier, more naturalistic books of the nineteenth" (Hockliffe Project, Hockliffe Collection of Children's Books, De Montfort University.)