-[2], 1-171 pages. All text within black borders. 14 copper engraved plates, all but one featuring children, their pastimes, and one of a mother spanking her child on his bare bottom! Priced at two and a half lira. All edges speckled. Original decorated green and red endpapers. With later bookplate pasted to front endpaper, and matching ink inscription on verso of front free endpaper, dated 1896. Provenance: H.E. Gregory. Bookplate in red and black, designed by A. Wyon. 60 x 85 mm. Original magenta cartonnage binding with scrolling gilt foliate borders to the covers. Complete with original slipcase with marbled paper exterior and different marbled interio; contemporary or slightly more recent but illegible small label with decorative blue borders on front of slipcase. Slight wear to the two raised parts of the spine. Not in Bondy, nor Spielmann, norWelsh. WorldCat locates no copies worldwide. Allan Wyon was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, which explains why this private bookplate designs lean heavily into medieval, heraldic, and historic Celtic motifs. 0 300 f27.020