The knight of the rose : an allegorical tale, designed for the amusement and moral instruction of youth

"Printed by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden." Advertisements of B. and R. Crosby and Co., dated Nov. 1813, on page 12 at end of text. An allegory designed for youth rather than children. First published in 1793. From the advertisement: "Excess being the cause of many vices...she [the author] chose the destruction of that, as the principal work of her hero: borrowing the idea from the Second Book of Spenser's Faëry Queene." List of works for young people by the author on the verso of title.