CHILDREN’S BOOK. – [Matthew Gregory LEWIS.] True History of a Little Old Woman Who found a Silver Penny. London: Richard Phillips, [1812.] 16mo (123 x 94mm.) Title, 10 hand-coloured illustrations, and 1 section (only) of the panorama. (Lacking 2 illustrations and also text leaves pp.10-11, pp.16-17 and pp.19-20, lacking advertisements to rear, title with paper repairs and paper repairs to 3 text leaves, some marginal losses.) Contemporary cloth, mounted paper with manuscript lettering to upper cover (creasing, spine frayed). Note: scarce. Considered a ‘cumulative’ children’s folk tale with roots going back to the Chad Gadya Passover Song in the 16th Century, this variant has an old woman finding a silver penny, who buys a pig, who tries to get her pig over a stile by asking a dog to bite the pig, then asks a stick to hit the dog, then a fire to burn the stick etc. Eventually, the pig goes over the stile after a cascade of accumulative violence. The illustrations have the imprint ‘Tabart & Co. May 27th 1806’. Provenance: Anna Crawford (ink name inscribed to title, dated 1815).