CHAPBOOKS. – J. DAVIS (publisher). [A numbered collection of 25 chapbooks published by J. Davis.] London: Knight and Bagster for J. Davis, [circa 1830.] 32mo (88 x 52mm.) Wood-engraved illustrations throughout, numbered title-page for each chapbook. (Browned to margins, lacking title and first two leaves to first chapbook.) Contemporary red morocco (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Note: includes: ‘A Pretty Picture Book’; ‘Dame Teachwell’s Pretty Book for Children’; ‘The Rose’; ‘A New Picture Book’; ‘Country Scenes’; ‘The Pleasing Instructor’; ‘Little Tom Tell-Truths Pretty Stories’; ‘The History of Sally Meanwell’; ‘The History of Fanny Thoughtless’; ‘The History of Dick Wildgoose’; ‘The Happy Girl or the History of Little Ann Goodchild’; ‘The History of Harry Heedless’; ‘Short Anecdotes and Useful Hints’; ‘The Shepherd Boy’; ‘A Father’s Pictures for Good and Little Boys & Girls’; ‘A Parent’s Stories for Good Children’; ‘The Four Seasons’; ‘The Lily, a Pretty Book’; ‘The Adventures of William Friendly’; ‘Jenny Peace and Nanny Fret’; ‘Tom Steady, a Pretty History for Good Children’. – And a further two volumes (‘The Female Instructor; or, Young Woman’s Companion’, [1811], 8vo, and J. Kincaid’s ‘Adventures in the Rifle Brigade, in the Peninsula, France, and the Netherlands from 1809 to 1815’, 1830, 8vo) (3).