Small square 8vo [5.75 x 6 inches] pp 23 [1 advert] printed in red and black throughout with red ruled borders with 12 etched plates including frontispiece by Onwhyn all fine hand-coloured original cloth-backed pictorial boards using the frontispiece illustration slightly rubbed minor wear to corners front free endpaper removed else an excellent clean copy housed in an elaborate and oversized fitted box in morocco-backed cloth silk inner compartments spine with raised bands. A rare and attractive item well housed, to say the least, in this copy; the refined and artistic hand-colouring is signed by Arthur T Beer at the end. The artist Thomas Onwhyn was of course, more celebrated for his Cruikshank imitations of early novels of Dickens. Coloured plates in order: 1. Nothing to Wear (frontispiece). 2. "There exists in some places..." 3. Coloured Header. 4. "A suffering family, whose sad..." 5. "To begging reduced, a case really shocking..." 6. "In one single house, alas! It's too true..." 7. "One deserving young lady..." 8. "In another large mansion near the same place..." 9. "In a neighbouring house, there was found..." 10. "But the saddest by far of all these sad features..." 11. "One case of a bride was brought to my view..." 12. "Won't somebody, moved by this touching description..." 13. "Of these scenes of woe? Enough is certain..."