Unknown 19 min read

In the ancient kingdom of Bonbobbin, a prince endowed with every gift meets a fairy tale of enchantment and transformation, in a fanciful Eastern story for children.

This anonymous 1816 chapbook, adapted from Oliver Goldsmith, is a quaint early children's fairy tale. Ornate, whimsical, historically rare. Read it for a charming Regency-era juvenile storybook, a pseudo-Chinese wonder-tale of a peerless prince and a white mouse, an elegant little artifact of early nineteenth-century children's publishing.

In its time

Published in 1816, during the 1810s, frankenstein's decade.

Reading it

19 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).