"The ladder to learning. Step the first. Containing fables consisting of words not exceeding three syllables."--Half title, p. [5]. By Sarah Trimmer. Variant issues; issue in hand is [48] p.; another issue is [64] p. Pagination sequence is so confusing in both cases, that the "ideal" copy cannot be discerned. William J. Reynolds was located at 20 Cornhill, Boston, between 1844 and 1846. Pages numbered in two separate sequences on inner and outer margins. Pagination, inner margin: 42, [1], 157-159, [2] p. Pagination, outer margin: [7], 14-51, [2] p. In publisher's paper binding printed in red ink. Wood engraving, p. [36], signed "WC" (i.e., William Croome?). "Uncle John's library. First series."--numbered series list, p. [1] at beginning."
