FIDO THE DOG

A Cup of Sweets, that can never cloy: or, delightful Tales for good Children. By A Lady. Third Edition.

London: Printed for J. Harris, Successor to E. Newbery … 1807.

8vo, pp. iv, 212; engraved frontispiece with original hand-colouring, tissue guard presumably added later; a very good, crisp copy in twentieth-century polished red calf, gilt, lightly stained and rubbed at corners, joints chipped but holding firm, spine gilt, chipped with lettering-piece missing; edges and turn-ins gilt, all edges gilt, pink cloth endpapers; red silk placemarkers.

£150

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‘Third edition’, scarce with the frontispiece; first published 1804. A typically moralistic collection, with one very gruesome tale pertaining to animal welfare. Straying unwarily into the kitchen one day, the unfortunate dog Fido is horribly scalded by a falling pan of boiling water, losing an eye and most of his fur in the process. His capricious owner abandons her now mutilated pet, but luckily her cousin has a little hospital for the care of sick and lame animals, where Fido finds refuge with two blind fighting cocks and other damaged creatures.

Numerous works published by Harris appeared under ‘E. S.’, though this anonymous author was apparently not Elizabeth Sandham, the prolific author who published ‘at the rate of over a book a year for the entire first quarter of the nineteenth century’ (Hockliffe Project online).

Moon 740; Osborne I, p. 295-6 and II, p. 929.

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