A companion to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England: containing a comment on the service for Sundays; including the collects, epistles, and gospels ... The second edition

London: printed for J. Johnson and Co. in St. Pauls’ Church-Yard [by T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London], 1812. 12mo, pp. [2], 475, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript titling on spine; upper joint starting, corners bumped, but on the whole a very good, clean, and sound copy. Early ownership inscription on pastedown reading: "P. M. Hopper / a reward for good behavior." Also, with his signature at the top of the title page. The book was first published in 1791, and is here reissued two years after her death. Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810) was a British author of mostly children's literature. "Her periodical, (truncated) The Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century" (Wikipedia). (Inventory #: 67120)