Trip's History of Beasts: Being a Trifle for a Good Boy

Albany: E & E Hosford, 1818. 4" x 2¼". Plain wrappers. pp. 31. Good: possibly disbound and inartfully repaired with library tape, wrappers and a few other leaves dampstained, light edge chipping.

A rare take on Thomas Bewick's Tommy Trip's History of Beasts and Birds . This printing features descriptions of 13 animals, with small woodcuts for each. Per OCLC, the printer also published this little book at least eight other years between 1806 and 1818.

OCLC locates three copies of this printing over two entries.

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