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THE TOILET.
London: Published by the author and sold by W. Sams, Bookseller to H. R. H. The Duke of York, 1821. Second edition. Illustrated with nine of hand-coloured plates with flaps which when raised reveal virtuous versions of the articles found on a young lady's dressing table: the enchanting mirror (humility); a wash to smooth wrinkles (contentment); a universal beautifier (good humour); matchless ear rings (attention), best white paint (innocence), superior rouge (modesty), a mixture to sweeten the voice (mildness and truth), fine lip salve (cheerfulness), and the late King's eye water (benevolence). Original printed paper covered boards. 133 x 108 mm. Spine restored; boards lightly soiled and rubbed; corners worn; else a very good copy with all flaps present. The first edition was published in the same year.
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THE TOMNODDY'S SONGSTER.
London: J. Catnach, No date [circa 1835]. [8] pages, plus wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette on both upper and lowers panels of the yellow wrappers, and with two small woodcuts within the text. Unstitched as issued. Approximately 12.5 x 9 cm's. A very good copy of a chapbook of popular songs and ballads.
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THE TONBRIDGE WELLS QUADRILLES, with their Figures, as Danced at Court, The Nobility's Balls, and Tonbridge Wells Assembleys. Composed and respectfully dedicated to the Subscribers to the Tonbridge Wells Promendade and Assembleys by Thomas Pradt.
London.G. Luff. No date. (Mid 19th century.). 12 page music score; the upper cover bearing a lithographed view of The Parade Tonbridge Wells. Disbound from an album of music scores, and a little damaged at spine; else an excellent copy of a scarce music sheet.
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THE TONBRIDGIAN, Volume IX, number 25 [303] – June 1891 – number 39. [317]. December 1892.
1891. Price Sixpence per issue of the Tonbridge School magazine. 14 consecutive issues bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. All edges gilt. 203 x 168 mm. Ownership name of R. Dudley Collard to flyleaf. Spine worn with some loss of gilt; else a very good clean copy.
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THE TONBRIDGIAN, Volume IX, number 40 [318] Price Sixpence – February 1893 – Volume X, Number 2 [331] December 1894.
1893. Price Ninepence. 15 consecutive issues of the Tonbridge School magazine. Bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. 203 x 168 mm. Ownership name of R. Dudley Collard to flyleaf. Spine worn with some loss of gilt; splitting at head of spine; else a very good clean copy.
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THE TONBRIDGIAN, Volume X, number 3 [332] – February 1895 – Volume XI, Number 2 [343] December 1896.
1895. Price Ninepence per issue of the Tonbridge School magazine. 12 consecutive issues bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. 203 x 168 mm. Ownership name of R. Dudley Collard to flyleaf. Spine worn with some loss of gilt; one page has a repaired tear; else a very good clean copy.
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THE TONGUE-CUT SPARROW. Japanese Fairy Tale Series, No. 2.
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, No date [circa 1903]. [2] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated in colour throughout. Printed on double leaves of crepe paper. A very good copy. An evil woman cuts a sparrow’s tongue. An elderly couple befriend the sparrow and nurse it back to health, and are subsequently rewarded for their kindness.
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THE TOOTI NAMEH, or Tales of a Parrot: in the Persian language, with an English translation.
London: J. Debrett, 1801. (viii), (324) + 2pp ad's. Persian and English parallel text throughout except in prelim's. Original marbled boards expertly re-backed and re-cornered in calf gilt. Octavo. First English edition. Original endpapers repaired at joints when re-backed; some rubbing and wear to edge of marbled paper; Two small blank corners torn away from upper, outer margins; the occasional finger-mark and some browning here & there. A very good copy.Originally printed in Calcutta. This is a translation by Francis Gladwin of a seventeenth century abridgement by Muhammed Khudavand of Nakhshabi's collection of folk tales.
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THE TOPPER BOOK.
London.John Leng & Co. Ltd, 1957. Coloured illustrations and in text. Illustrated publisher's boards with illustrated end-papers. Landscape. Extremities a little worn, and there is a small horizontal split to the spine and a small chip to the head. A very good copy.
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THE TOPPER BOOK.
London.John Leng & Co. Ltd, 1956. Coloured illustrations and in text. Illustrated publisher's boards with illustrated end-papers. Landscape. Covers lightly dust-soiled; slight wear to extremities; name of previous owner on verso of front free endpaper. A very good copy.
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THE TORCH. The Journal of the City Literary Institute and THE CRESSET. the Journal of the City Literary Institute. [Five Volumes]
London.University of London Press, Ltd. 1922, to 1937. Five volumes bound individually in green cloth with title in gilt to spine. Part publications comprising articles and poetry relating to the City Literary Institute. Originally known as The Torch, the first volume has the original paper covers bound in. Occasional light spotting to the bindings but the text is clean. Very good copies.
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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX In Search of the Picaresque. A Poem.
London: R. A. Ackermann, 1823. Miniature edition. 276, [1 Directions to the binder] pages .Frontispiece, vignette on title, and 29 plates all hand-coloured as issued. Later full calf gilt by Bayntun Bindery, Bath, 142 x 95 mm. A fine, fresh copy.
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THE TOUR OF DOCTOR SYNTAX, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. Third edition, with New Plates.
London.R. Ackermann. 1813. Hand-coloured frontispiece; title with hand-coloured vignette; iii, [1], 276, [1 directions to the binder]pp. Illustrated with a further twenty-nine finely hand-coloured aquatint plates by Thomas Rowlandson. Bound in 19th century half calf gilt with a red morocco label. One leaf of text has some damage to the inner margin with old creasing and tear and a small loss of the border, but with no loss to the text; some light marking and soiling here & there; else a very nice copy in a pleasant binding.
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THE TOWER OF LONDON. A Historical romance. Collection of Ancient and Modern British Authors. Vol. CCCIII.
Paris: Baudry's European Library, 1841. xii, 426 pages. Bound in quarter calf, gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. A very good copy.
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THE TOWN & COUNTRY MOUSE and other Fables.
London & Belfast: Marcus Ward & Co, No date [circa 1880's]. [12] pages. Illustrated with 6 colour plates. Original pictorial wrappers. 28.4 x 20 cm. Spine worn and splitting at heel; else very good.
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THE TOY BOOK OF BIRDS AND BEASTS. With twenty-four coloured engravings.
London.The Religious Tract Society. No date [circa 1876]. Unpaged, but 54 leaves, each printed on one side only. Illustrated with 24 chromolithograph plates after Harrison Weir, interleaved with blanks. Original pictorial cloth, gilt with a mounted pastedown to the upper cover. All edges gilt. 4to. Very slight wear to corners, head & heel of spine and edges; tiny hole in the gutter of spine; but a very good copy of a splendid toy book.
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THE TOYTOWN MYSTERY. Illustrated by Ernest Noble The Original Toytown Story of that famous Broadcast play. The Children's Hour Favourite,
London.George Lapworth & Co. Ltd. Undated. [2], 3-32pp. Illustrated in black & white throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. 12mo. Rear board a little dust-soiled; some light spotting to top edges; else a very good copy.
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THE TRAGEDY OF MR. PUNCH A Fantastic Play in Prologue and One Act. Introductory Essay by Max Beerbohm. Illustrations by Arthur Watts.
London: Duckworth & Co, 1923. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. 61 pages. Nine tipped-in coloured plates. Quarto. First edition. Two plates with small crease-marks to outer corners; few light spots; else a very good copy in dust-wrapper.
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THE TRAGICAL DEATH OF A APPLE-PYE, who was Cut in Pieces and Eat by Twenty-five Gentlemen with whom All Little People Ought to be very well acquainted.
Printed and sold by J Thompson. No21, Eastsmithfield [sic], No date. [Circa 1800.]. 16pp. Illustrated with three small woodcuts. Self wrappers. Approx: 9 x 5.6 cm’s. Though the cuts are slightly different, the textual content is identical to that of the John Evans edition above, save that ‘little readers… run to Mr Thompson’s No, 21, East-Smithfield’, rather than ‘Mr. Evans’s, No. 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield.’ Cut a little crookedly at fore-edge, else a very good copy. Publications by J. Thompson are very scarce.
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THE TRAGICAL HISTORY OF PIRAMUS AND THISBE. The Fifth Edition. Enlarged by the Author.
London: C. Harper, and R. Tonson, 1681. A Fragment taken from a larger work. Dedication leaf; title, 25 – 32 pages. Bound in later half black roan, gilt over marbled boards. Bookplates of Shakespeare Library and Pamela and Raymond Lister. Evidence of the removal of one small bookplate. Blank area of the dedication leaf restored; little marked and soiled here & there; else a very good copy. Written when Cowley was ten years of age, and first published when he was thirteen.
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