[DORSET, Catherine Ann; MULREADY, William (illustrator)].
The Peacock and Parrot,
The Peacock and Parrot,
on their tour in search of the author of "The Peacock at Home".
Stock Code 111355
London, Printed for J. Harris, 1816
The book was published following the tremendous success of Catherine Ann Dorset's (d.1816?) The Peacock at Home, which sold 40,000 copies within a year, and reached a twenty-eighth edition by 1819. The present work is much less well-known, with WorldCat recording only 16 copies in institutional collections worldwide.
With an early female gift inscription 'For Sarah King from her sister Honora'(?).
First edition; 16mo (12.5 x 10.5 cm); 6 hand-coloured engraved plates including frontispiece, gift inscription in pen to front free endpaper; original pictorial wrappers, rebacked in green card, housed in a modern grey cloth clamshell case, contrasting red morocco title-piece to spine, a very good example.
Moon 605; Gumuchian 2251.
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