Excerpt from A Book for Boys and Girls, or Country Rhymes for Children: Being a Facsimile of the Unique First Edition, Published in 1686, Deposited in the British Museum A Book for Boys and Girls, or, Tem poral Things Spiritualized, by John Bunyan. The natural conclusion was that this was the same work as the one num bered thirty-seven in Charles Doe's list of 1698, and described as A Book for Boys and Girls; or, Country Rhymes for Children in Verse on Seventy-four Things; and, in the list of 1692, as Meditations on Seventy-four Things. Under one or other of these two titles also the book was advertised as Bunyan's, both by Nathaniel Ponder and Dorman Newman - the one the publisher of the Pilgrim's Progress, and the other of the. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.