The yellow shoe-strings; or, the good effects of Obedience to Parents

London: William Darton, [1821]. 62pp, [2]. With an engraved folding frontispiece, two further engraved plates, and a final page of publisher's advertisements. Stitched, as issued, in original publisher's buff printed limp wrappers. Extremities rubbed, surface loss. Endpapers and frontispiece gutter damp-stained, early ownership inscriptions to verso of frontispiece and head of title page. A rare survival, in unsophisticated state, of the third printing of James Pedder's (1775-1859) conduct of life tale for children. In the introduction, the author explains that the story was first told to his own children who 'at its conclusion...begged that it might be written out, (as they termed it)...it was accordingly written that same evening, almost verbatim'. Pedder, born on the Isle of Wight, emigrated to the Philadelphia in his fifties where he was engaged in sugar manufacture. All editions are scarce, with this third being no exception; COPAC and OCLC together record only one copy in the British Isles (Cambridge); OCLC adds seven further in North America (California, Florida, Indiana, McGill, Morgan, Princeton, and Stanford). Darton H1202 (3).. Third edition. 8vo.