The History of Little Goody Twoshoes

The History of Little Goody Twoshoes. : Otherwise called Mrs. Margery Twoshoes. : With the means by which she aquired her learning and wisdom, and in consquence thereof her estate.:.. See the original manuscript in the Vatican at Rome, and the cuts by Micheal Angelo; illistrated with the comments of our great modern criticks.--The First Worcester Edition.

Printed at Worcester, Massachusetts.: By Isaiah Thomas, and sold, wholesale and retail, at his bookstore., MDCCXXXVII [1787]. 158, [2-bookseller advts] (32mo).

Condition: Collated complete with frontispiece and many woodcut illistrations. A clean and attractive text, untrimmed as original. Bound in early 3/4 morocco, marbled endpapers, marbled paper over boards [front cover detaching but present]. Otherwise a very good copy.

" The First Worcester Edition of a chap-book the authorship of which is now very generally ascribed to Oliver Goldsmith. The woodcuts and type are almost a facsimile of the English edition. The first copy of 'Goody Twoshoes' is said to have been published in 1765, but this and the second edition have completely disappeared" [Church]