[Production Difficulties]. [Turner, Elizabeth].

The Daisy; or, Cautionary Stories in Verse. Adapted to the Ideas of Children from Four to Eight Years Old. Illustrated with Sixteen Engravings on Copperplate. Part I.

Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson, 1808. First edition. 16mo, original orange wrappers, [36] pages. Illus. with copperplate engravings. Some light foxing and soiling; a very good copy. Item #19164

An amiable botch of a production and an object lesson in the hazards of collation and binding, with a number of the otherwise attractive copperplate illustrations bound in upside-down and leaves of text bound out of order; it is unlikely Johnson ever allowed the book to be published. American Imprints 14821; Rosenbach 382.

Price: $125.00