8vo. 110pp, [4]. With two final leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt. A trifle rubbed, marked, and sunned. Contemporary inked ownership inscription to head of half-title.

The first edition of the second and final published work of Elizabeth Anne Hendry, of whom little is known. The novel, intended primarily for a juvenile readership, and partially presented in the form of dialogues, centres upon the young family of a Sussex-based clergyman and former Oxford fellow, whose precociously curious children are educated in matters historical and spiritual, including such disparate topics as the life of Martin Luther and the events of the Battle of Trafalgar. Darton published a second edition in the same year as the first.

COPAC records copies at four locations (Aberdeen, BL, Cambridge, and St. Andrew’s); OCLC adds one further (Oxford).