The ladder to learning

The ladder to learning : a select collection of fables, consisting of words of one, two, and three syllables, with original morals .... ''Ornamented with a great variety of engravings on wood.''--t.p. The t.-p. vignette pictures the Juvenile Library in St. Paul's Churchyard. Three parts in one volume. ''The first consisting of words of one syllable only, the second of words not exceeding two, and the third admitting but very few that exceed three syllables.'' --p. [iii].