Holiday entertainment, or, The good child's fairing : containing the plays and sports of Charles and Billy Welldon, and other little boys and girls who went with them to the fair.

Includes 9 woodcuts.First sentence: "That all little folks should mind their language, is a truth which nobody will dispute; but that they should have play, amusement, and holidays, at proper times, to be sure, is as necessary; in which, no doubt, they will all very readily agree with me; and if they are as ready to read this little book, I could venture to lay a wager, that they will not afterwards be sorry for it."Date of publication from Roscoe & Brimmell's Lumsden & Son of Glasgow as cited below.Cover title.Roscoe & Brimmell. Lumsden, ǂc 84Mode of access: Internet.Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: title-page vignette & 7 wood engravings in rectangular frames. Yellow wrappers with a large wood engraving within an oval frame on both back & front wrappers. P.18 is misnumbered "16." 2nd copy has blue wrappers, with different wood engravings on front & back wrappers. Osborne - p.897. The Bewick Collector - Hugo - #17. Lumsden - Roscoe & Brimmel - #84. Gumuchian - #1572 - claims wood engravings are by Thomas Bewick. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. Nov/88. $300.00. Victoria Book Shop. New York. Aug/90. $200.00. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - '95 - $375