[ROSCOE, William – Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY – The lion’s masquerade, a sequel to the peacock at home. Written by a lady. Illustrated with elegant engravings

[ROSCOE, William - Imitations]. [DORSET, Catharine Ann Turner]. A LADY. The lion's masquerade, a sequel to the peacock at home. Written by a lady. Illustrated with elegant engravings.

London. Printed for J. Harris, 1808. Second edition.

16mo. 16pp. With engraved frontispiece and five further plates. Stitched within original publisher's yellow pictorial wrappers. Extremities rubbed and discoloured, a trifle creased, short central tear at spine. Two small holes to frontispiece.

A tale of the 'King of the Quadrupeds' in rhyming couplets for young children, in imitation of William Roscoe's popular 'Butterfly's Ball' (London, 1807), first published in 1807 and long attributed to Catherine Ann Dorset not least because it is described within the title as 'A sequel to the peacock at home'.

Jackson p. 320. Moon 214 (2).

£ 250.00 Antiquates Ref: 26048