The foundling, or, The history of Lucius Stanhope. Embellished with cuts.

One of 39 chapbooks bound in 3 volumes (PML 88014-16) with spine title: York chapbooks. 1/2 brown calf; marbled covers and end-papers; original chapbook wrappers bound in; the 3 volumes housed in paper slip case.
Dated ca. 1825 (cf. Osborne, cited below).
Written by Richard Johnson, and first published in London by E. Newbery in 1787. (Cf. Weedon, cited below).
Front wrapper included in pagination.
Cover title framed in decorative border.
First and last leaves pasted down.
Alphabets and numbers, t.p. verso.
Includes 9 wood-engravings.
Frontispiece shows two male figures, with a verse below: "The tulip and the butterfly / Appear in gayer coats than I / Let me be drest fine as I will / Flies, worms, and flow'rs exceed me still."
"Against Lying": poem from Divine Songs; frontispiece caption: fourth stanza of "Against Pride in Clothes" also from Divine Songs. (Cf. Davis, cited below.)
Book list, "Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew ... (19 titles, ending with Riddles) on back wrapper.
Includes poem, "Against lying" (p. 30-31).
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.