LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME -

EARLY ENGLISH. LITTLE PIG'S RAMBLE FROM HOME. London: Dean & Son. (1857 date on rear cover). 12mo, (5 1/8 x 6 3/4"), 23p., pictorial wraps, archival repair to spine and corner worn else VG+. The story in rhyme tells about a little pig who leaves home to find his fortune but he encounters only adversity, eventually ending up on the butcher's block. Illustrated with 8 very fine hand-colored cuts plus hand-colored cover (cover erroneously calls for 10 coloured pictures but the pagination is continuous including the pictures and nothing is missing). This is a charming toy book with unusually nice hand-coloring.