The Pleasing Instructor; Or, A Packet of Pictures for All Good Children
This small book is a reproduction of a book of illustrated moral stories, published in about 1830 by Hodgson & Co, of Newgate Street in London. So it is both an engravers book and a book of text, but I have included it among the engravers, even though the artists are not known. It was intended as a book of short tales to instruct young people about how best to live their lives with prose explanations and poetical applications.
The cover is probably a facsimile of the title page.
(Last updated on 30/11/2020)
SBE-INS1: First edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Milldale Road, Kettering
Year: 1989?
ISBN: None
Size: 127 x 91 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: two
Binding: white glossy printed card covers
Paper: white
Editor: (J.L. Carr)
Cover artist: not stated
Internal illustrations: 19 wood engravings
Number in series: 95
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none stated
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none listed
Printed by: not stated
Content: Engraved pictures with short stories or explanations beneath, followed by two lines of moralistic verse.
Notes: This is one of seven titles numbered 95. The other six are: he others are: Belloc, Byron, Stevenson, The Young Women's Old Testament, Margaret Wells, and the Dictionary of English Cricketers volume 2.
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover