The Lost Trunk and The Good Nurse. SHERWOOD (Mary Martha).

12mo. [130 x 108 x 6 mm]. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, advertisements printed on the rear cover. (Loss of paper to spine, minor soiling).

London: Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill, [c.1840]

Text block clean, a good copy. Scarce, limited to University of Leeds, University of Liverpool and University of Reading libraries. Undated, University of Reading estimates 1836, and University of Liverpool and Leeds date it between 1837-1845.

Mary Martha Sherwood (1775-1851) was a prolific children's writer, writing over four hundred works, one of her best known works being The History of Little Henry and his Bearer (1814).

Stock no. ebc9175