50. Picture Gallery (The) for all Good Boys and Girls, explained in words of one Syllable: Exhibition the First; The Picture Gallery for all Good Boys and Girls shewing them the Cries of London: Exhibition the Second, 2 vol. bound in one, each with frontispiece, title-page, and 28 illustrations, printed two to a page, the captions within ornamental borders on opposite page, engraved throughout and coloured by hand, the word "frontispiece" in vol. 2 cropped, outer margin of one leaf repaired, some leaves mounted on stubs; bound with four pages of hand-coloured illustrations cut from other works, and a picture alphabet engraved on four pages and coloured by hand, possibly originally published as a battledore, contemporary roan-backed boards, 8vo, John Wallis , 1801 [watermarked 1802]-1802.
est. £2000 – £3000
No copy of the first "Exhibition" has appeared at auction since the Oppenheimer copy thirty years ago.