Includes 8 woodcuts.First sentence: "Rachel Maitland was sitting beside her blind grandfather, knitting warm woollen stockings for his use against the ensuing winter; a book lay open before her, from which she was endeavoring to acquire the French language without the assistance of a master.""Price 6 1-4 cents."--catalogue, p. [4] of wrapper."Children's books ... published and for sale, wholesale and retail, by Geo. P. Daniels"--catalogue, p. [4] of wrapper.Date on p. [1] of wrapper: 1845In printed wrapper.Mode of access: Internet.Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: frontispiece; title-page vignette; 6 cuts. 1845 on wrapper, 1843 on title-page. Blue pictorial wrappers. I. Mackenzie. Montreal. May/66. $15.00. Harold ...