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1,000 QUAINT CUTS FROM BOOKS OF OTHER DAYS. Including Amusing Illustrations from Children's Story Books, Fables, Chap-books, Etc., Etc., A Selection of Pictorial Initial Letters & Curious Designs & Ornaments from Original Wooden Blocks belonging to The Leadenhall Press
London: Field & Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, [1886]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 170 pages plus 8 ad's (uncut pages). Black & white illustrations throughout. Blue decorative card covers printed in gilt & black. Measures approximately 24.5 x 19 cm. Re-spined in plain blue paper; Some foxing to endpapers; large bookplate to paste-down front endpaper; cover lightly soiled with slight wear to extremities; rear cover a little marked; else a very good copy.
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1 & 1 are 2. Dean’s 6d Rag Book Series 1. Number 178.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [circa 1920]. 10 pages. Illustrated in colour by Richard James Williams. 135 x 114 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope, page 88. However, this has a variant cover design with the titles in numerals rather than words.
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1 and 2 are 3. Dean’s 1/- Patent Rag Book Series 2. Number 198.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [in print 1916 – 1930]. 10 pages, plus 4 half leaves. Illustrated in colour by Mittie Mildred Morris. Cover design by Richard James Williams. 190 x 124 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive with the original paper advert’ slip still loosely laid in. See Cope, page 93. This is a rare interactive rag book that requires the reader to turn over half-size answer pages.
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1. CATO'S DISTICHS CONCERNING MANNERS. 2. Excellent Sayings of the seven Wise Men of Greece. 3. Publius's Stage Verses, or Seneca's Proverbs, in Latin and English. Likewise Cato Construed Grammatically, with one Row Latin, and another English. Whereby little Children may Understandingly learn the Rules of Common Behaviour.
London.The Company of Stationers. 1722. [xxii], 1-70 + [2]pp index. Title in Latin and English. Original full sheep with manuscript paper label to spine. 12mo. Binding very worn, with corners bumped and worn; spine split along lower board; small loss to both head and heel of spine; paper label rubbed with roughly half worn away; fore-edges browned; some old ink marks to endpapers; ownership inscription to 2nd front free endpaper; else a good plus copy.
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17 Penny pamphlets relating to Rochester.
17 Penny pamphlets relating to Rochester bound together as one, without wrappers, in 19th century cloth, the spine titled: 'Guide to Rochester.' Titles: Reminiscences of Old Rochester; The History of Rochester Castle; History of Rochester Cathedral; Bishops of Rochester; A Trip Down the River Medway; A Trip up the River Medway; Historic Houses of Old Rochester; The Life of Bishop Gundulph; The Priory of Rochester; Civic Rochester; Old Churches of Rochester; Local Legends; Quaint Kentish Epitaphs and Signs; Kentish Customs; The Guildhall, Rochester; Bygone Inns of Rochester; Guide to Rochester Castle. Binding a little faded, particularly at spine; name on endpaper; else very good.
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24 Pictorial Post Cards of Sandwich and neighbouring coastal towns. Latest and Most Up-to-Date Views.
Sandwich: J, Reynolds & H. J., Benstead, No date [circa late 1920s]. [12] leaves, two black & white post cards per leaf, each with a perforated edge. Only six cards are actually of Sandwich. Original printed wrappers. 188 x 150 mm. Staples rusting; else very good.
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2nd Poems.
London.PL Editions Poetry. 1945. 36pp. Original grey/blue cloth gilt. Original unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Few light spots on the first few leaves; slight wear to the head of the spine of the wrapper; else a very good copy indeed.
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3 WISE OLD COUPLES. The Words by Mrs. E. T. Corbett. The Pictures by Hopkins.
London.Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1881. Unpaged, but 32 leaves, all but the last printed on one side only. Title and fourteen full-page plates all printed in colour. The final leaf is printed on both sides, the recto being ad's. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 4to. First edition. Head of spine with just a tiny amount of loss, heel of spine split on lower edge and sometime repaired; some rubbing to edges of boards; else a very good copy of a scarce title, attractively illustrated.
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30 FABELN FUR KINDER. Mit 30 Schattenbildern von Marie Margarete Behrens.
Zwikau.Johannes Hermann. No date. (1920's.). Oblong: 18x25cm. Illustrated with 30 full-page silhouettes. Boards a little worn at extremities; paper browning at edges; else a very nice copy.
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52 STORIES FOR GIRLS By Thomas Archer, George Manville Fenn, Lieut.-Col A. J. Macpherson, Rosa Mulholland, Alice Corkran, Sarah Doudney, Jennie Chappell, Armand Caumont, and other writers. Fourteenth thousand.
London: Hutchinson, No date. 450 pages. Illustrated. Original pictorial red cloth, gilt. Al ledges gilt. Lacks two leaves of ad's at rear; spine rubbed and somewhat dulled; else very good.
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52 STORIES OF CLASSIC HEROES with contributions by Hope Moncrieff, Mrs. Guy E. Lloyd, M. Mostyn Bird, H. P. Maskell, and the Editor. Edited by Francis Storr. With illustrations by Frank C. Papé.
London: Hutchinson and Co, No date [1910]. 400 pages. 8 full-page black & white plates. Original brown pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. First edition. A fine copy.
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A APPLE PIE.
Auckland.Oxford University Press. 1987. Illustrated in colour throughout. Hardback. Original pictorial glazed boards. No dust-wrapper, as issued. 18.5 x 15cm. First edition. A very good copy.
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A APPLE PIE. Engraved and printed by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [1887]. Unpaged. 22 leaves printed on one side only. Illustrated throughout in colour by Kate Greenaway. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Fore-edges stained red. Oblong: 21.2 x 26.4 cm. First edition. Contemporary inscription on half-title; some occasional spotting; else a very handsome copy. Schuster & Engen 1[c].
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A.B.C.
Paris: Hachette & Cie, No date [circa 1911-1918]. A French issue of Dean ‘s 6d Patent Rag Book Series 1. Number 131. 6 pages. Illustrated in colour by David Brett, Eugenie Richards et al. 235 x 115 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, page 79.
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A.B.C. FÖR BARN.
Stockholm: Fr. Huldberg, No date [circa 1840?]. A Swedish picture sheet for a child's nursery, illustrating the letters of the alphabet, etc. A lithograph of twenty four images all hand-coloured as issued. Splitting at centrefold; else near fine. Mounted in acid-free board. Exposed image size: 31.3 x 39.7 cm. Mount size: 45 x 53 cm.
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A.B.C. With Illustrations by T. Pym [pseud].
London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd, 1905. 128 pages.. Illustrated throughout in line. Sometime rebound in quarter morocco over paper-covered boards. 7.5 x 5.7 cm. A very handsome copy of a scarce miniature alphabet.
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A BAFFLED OATH or The Cost of Deceit. New Magnet Library No. 1180.
New York: Street & Smith Corporation, No date [circa 1929]. Softcover. Text block browned; spine worn & head & heel with small loss of paper; else a very good copy.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ARCHERY. An indexed catalogue of 5,000 articles, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war, and recreation, from the earliest times to the present day.
Manchester: The Simon Archery Foundation, 1974. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. A fine copy. This book is heavy and will incur extra postal charges; please contact us directly for a shipping quote: info@davidmilesbooks.com
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF D. H, LAWRENCE.
London. Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. Hardback in original unclipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A fine copy in a like slightly dust-soiled dust-wrapper with one very short tear.
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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ENGLISH CORANTO'S AND PERIODICAL NEWSBOOKS 1612-1642.
London.The Bibliographical Society. 1952. [i-ii] 3-288pp. 16 illustrations within the text. Original quarter cloth over paper-covered boards. 16 black & white illustrations. Octavo. First Edition. Book plate; some browning to endpapers; slight soiling to spine cloth; else an excellent copy.
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