The Monkey's Frolic. a Funny Picture Book by JUVENILE - 1824

London: Harris and Son, 1824. Paperback. Very Good. Not dated but 1824 . 12mo, 17pp. Illustrated with 16 hand coloured illustrations with verse below, printed on one side only except the back cover which has advertises Harris publications. Some slight thumbing and general overall browning of the paper, small marginal tear on page 3-see photo. Bound in original printed buff wrappers which are rubbed, worn with a horizonatl tear on back cover. A  good copy.The Monkeys Frolic is about a Monkey who teases a cat eventually falling from the roof with the cat in tow, giving a sick man in bed a terrible fright, who suddenly and miraculously is cured of gout. The Monkey’s Frolic was the 37th title issued in Harris's Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction, the first having been The Comic Adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog, of which Harris boasted that in a few months of its first publication in 1805 he had sold 10,000 copies. Moon 552. The successors to publisher John Harris, Grant and Griffith, used the original John Harris wood blocks and type face for later editions of some of John Harris titles. Grant & Griffith took over Harris circa 1835, later changing their name to Griffith and Farran in 1856 6.5 x 4.5 inches