[Rarebooks] FS: Perfidy Detected!

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Offered today: 

A great little nineteenth-century chapbook for children. 

JOHNSON, RICHARD (1733 or 4 - 1793). 

_Perfidy Detected! or, The Children in the Wood Restored, by Honestas,
the Hermit of the Forest: Who were Supposed to have been either Murdered
or Starved to Death, by Order of Their Inhuman Uncle, Being The
Continuation of the History of the Children in the Wood_. 

Banbury: Printed and Sold by J. G. Rusher, n. d. [but circa 1835]. 

Chapbook. 4 1/2 x 2 7/8 inches. (20) pp. 12 woodcuts (counting the 3
cuts on the wrappers and the frontispiece), ads for Rusher's other
publications inside the wraps; text clean, unmarked. Self-wraps,
stitched; binding square and tight, some light dog-earring to covers and
tiny tears to edges of leaves that extend beyond the wraps. Very Good. 

$ 150 

FIRST EDITION, thus. _The Children in the Wood_ was in print in England
from the sixteenth century, and was a traditional fairy tale in which
the children die of starvation in the original version. This edition,
one of many published by J. G. Rusher, bears the influence of the
anti-fairy tale campaign of Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810), so that the text
was changed to reunite the children with their father and Honestas is
rewarded with his old farm restored to him and Honestas finds his own
children alive. Its publication date is not certain, but is estimated
between 1820 and 1835. John Golby Rusher (1784-1877) was a leading
producer of chapbooks. The Rusher publishing house (John succeeded his
father William (1759-1849) was active from 1812 to 1874. REFERENCES:
_Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books_, Vol. I, p. 269. 

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