Little Downy
Subtitle: or, The history of a field-mouse : a moral tale
By: embellished with twelve colored engravings.
Contributors: Moodie, Susanna, 1803-1885; Dean and Munday
Publisher: Printed for Dean and Munday
Published: 1822
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 48
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Mice -- Juvenile fiction.; Animal welfare -- Juvenile fiction.; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: History of a field-mouse; Life and interesting adventures of a field mouse
Notes: "Price 1s. 6d.".--Cover.

Preliminary wood-engraved plate included in pagination.

Author's name taken from The Osborne collection of early children's books, 1958.

Also attributed to Susanna Strickland (afterwards Moodie). Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Wood-engraved plate and illustrations are hand-coloured.  All are unsigned.

St. John, Judith.  Osborne collection of early children's books, p. 311.

MASS copy: In original beige paper wrappers.  Upper wrapper printed in black with a variation of the t.p. with a decorative border, and lower cover with publisher's advertisements for "Juvenile Publications".