(Battledoors) THE UNCLE'S PRESENT, A NEW BATTLEDOOR. Philadelphia: Published by Jacob Johnson, 147 Market-Street, [between 1810-1815]. FIRST EDITION. 16mo - 6-7/16" x 3-13/16". Russet stiff paper self-wrappers, formed like an envelope, with a flap that folds over the fore edge of the book, with upper case alphabet above a central image of sheep by a tree, with numerals followed by publication information below, and with "READ, AND BE WISE" in the upper margin on front wrapper; back wrapper with lower case alphabet above a central image of a horse, with italic lower case alphabet below, and with "READ, AND BE WISE" in the upper margin; flap printed with "COME, READ AND LEARN;" minor chipping to the paper along the upper edge of back wrapper and a short split to the paper at the tail of the flap fold where the paper wasn't completely glued to the underlying stiff paper wrapper, for what is an extremely bright, clean copy of the book. [6] pp. including wrappers. The book is a twenty-four letter alphabet book (no J or U), illustrated with engravings of street vendors and their particular cries as captions, e.g., A a: Almanack, will you buy an Almanack?; B b: Buy a Broom: Mop, Brush, or hair broom?; C c: Chairs to mend old chairs to mend?; additional publication information printed on inside of flap; clean internally with title flap and final page of alphabet not pasted down to the underlying wrappers. The condition of the book is NEAR FINE. SCARCE, especially in such nice condition. #001102