Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings shaker style with a split running horizontally

with a split running horizontally from the right edge

or could be hung by the hole in his back

There is a fair amount of glare caught in photos - I have included photos shot in a few different lighting conditions to try to give a decent sense

it appears to have been thrown

Finding these was a revelation to me--I've never seen another set

Early Lessons in Six Volumes, Very Charming, Scarce Set of 1820s Children's Books by Maria Edgeworth with Marvelous Hand-colored Engravings shaker style with a split running horizontallyA 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