16mo. 67pp, [3]. With half-title, woodcut vignette to title, a further 22 woodcuts in the text, and terminal advertisements. Stab stitched within original printed wrappers. Rubbed, with a little tearing to head and foot of spine; corners slightly dog-eared.

A rare survival (given the poor-quality stab-stitched binding) in the original wrappers (which interestingly reference Simpkin and Marshall as publishers) of the first Whittingham edition of British philanthropist and abolitionist Thomas Day's (1748-89) enduringly popular children's tale, The history of little jack. First published in 1788 by John Stockdale, the story of the Little Jack the foundling, as with Day's better-known Sanford and Merton, embraces Rousseauian romantic notions of nature and childhood.

COPAC locates just a single copy of this edition (Oxford); OCLC adds one further, at Yale.