"18. Leipzig, bey Voss und Compagnie, 1795, in-8°, 19,5 x 12 cm, title with engraved vignette + (2) + 20 contemporary handcoloured plates + pp 5-189 + (2); contemporary marbled boards (severe traces of use, paper on back nearly all gone, some thumbing of the coloured plates, mainly at the beginning, in all a very acceptable copy. BOUND WITH; Johann Gottfried Weber; Vorschiften oder Erster Anfang zur Schreibkunst für Landschulen. Im Verlag der Helwingschen Universitäts Buchhandlung zu Duisburg am Rhein, nine engraved folding plates, including the title, 17,5 x 20 cm. Title signed; H. Cöntgen Sculpsit. Convolute of two rare 18th century German children's books. Wegehaupt N°887 (for the 5th edition of 1797) The first edition is from 1790."