The Honest Farmer.

Berquin [(Arnaud)]

The Honest Farmer.

A Drama, in five Acts, to which are added, Vanity punished, and Blind-Man's Buff [...]

Description: frontispiece engraving, small but smudged pen trial to verso of title-page with offsetting, pp. [iv], 176, 12mo; quarter faded green calf and contemporary marbled paper-backed boards, remnants of printed paper label to spine, rubbed, dedication inscription to front flyleaf: 'Mary Harding / from / her Brother'

Publication Details: London: John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1798

Notes: The first British edition of this play for children, with a rural setting.This five act morality play was penned by the French children's author Arnaud Berquin (1747-1791). Berquin's most famous work, L'Ami des Enfants (1782) was first translated into English and bowdlerised by Mary Stockdale and published by her father John Stockdale as The Looking-glass for the Mind (1783). It may be safely assumed that the present work is a similar joint production by Mary and her father. The play focuses on the fortunes of kindly farmer Throwgood and his family, as they contend with the loss of their cat...moreThe first British edition of this play for children, with a rural setting.This five act morality play was penned by the French children's author Arnaud Berquin (1747-1791). Berquin's most famous work, L'Ami des Enfants (1782) was first translated into English and bowdlerised by Mary Stockdale and published by her father John Stockdale as The Looking-glass for the Mind (1783). It may be safely assumed that the present work is a similar joint production by Mary and her father. The play focuses on the fortunes of kindly farmer Throwgood and his family, as they contend with the loss of their cattle and the whims of their landlord Squire Sparks. An English edition was also published in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1794, which is also scarce. ESTC records just five copies of the present edition. HIDE

Bibliography: (ESTC: T107461)

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