Simple Lays for Early Days : A Book of Poetry for Children. Edinburgh & New York: T. Nelson and Sons, ca. 1865. [11976]
Faded purple cloth, blind-stamped, gilt title to spine, 5 x 3 1/2 inches, slight bow to the boards. Engraving of a game or fight in a hay stack, title page with vignette of an older girl reading to her siblings. Outline remains of a removed sticker or label on the verso of the title page. 64 clean pp. with many text illustrations. Good. Hardcover.
A collection of Christian poetry for reading to children.
The contributors include Jane Taylor, E. Lee Follen, A. L. Westcombe, Keble, Isaac Watts, Samuel Lover, M. L. Duncan, and Mary Howitt.
A copy at WorldCat has a Christmas gift inscription dated 1866.
