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INTRODUCTION
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and manners and men;" his "choiceneſs of diction;" his "lightneſs and grace of touch, that lend a charm even to" his "ordinary hack work."
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The reprint which is here preſented is a photographic fac-ſimile of the earlieſt complete copy that we have been able to procure. Judging from fragments of earlier editions in the poſſeſſion of the publiſhers, it would appear to be printed from exactly the ſame types as the original iſſue of April 1765. The copy from which the reprint is made was kindly lent to the publiſhers by Mr Erneſt Hartley Coleridge, whoſe collection at the South Kenſington Muſeum of eighteenth century books for children is well known. The actual size of that book is 4 inches by 234, but it has been thought better to
