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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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THE TRAIN: A First-class Magazine.
London.Groombridge and Sons. 1856 - 1858. 5 volumes (all published). Original blue cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. A near fine set of this scarce publication.Volume 1 contains three original pieces by Dodgson: 'Solitude.' 'Ye Carpette Knyghte.' 'The Path of Roses.' Dodgson's use of the pseudonym 'Lewis Carroll' is here used for the first time (Solitude). Volume 2 contains a further three pieces by Carroll: 'Novelty and Romancement. A broken Spell.' 'Upon the lonely moor.' 'The three Voices.' Volume 3 contains 'The Sailor's Wife.' And Volume 4 the famous 'Hiawatha Photographing.' The Train was a monthly magazine started by Edmund Yates and his friends after the failure of his first venture the Comic Times. See Williams, Madan, Green 14.
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THE TRANSIT OF VENUS. Nature Series. With numerous illustrations.
London and New York: Macmillan and Co, 1874. 99, [1 blank], [2 ad's] pages [ ad's on endpapers also]. Illustrated. Original pictorial semi-stiff cloth covers, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine a little worn; else a very good copy.
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THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF INDUR, An Indian Brachman, Through the Bodies of an Antelope, Wild Goose, Dormouse, Elephant, Whale, Bee, Rabbit, Mastiff, and his return to the Human Form.
London: Houlston and Co, No date [circa 1840]. 44, [2 ad's] pages. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original wrappers with cut to upper panel. 12 x 7.7 cm. A very good copy of this scarce chapbook.
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THE TRANSMIGRATIONS OF THE MANDARIN FUM-HOAM (Chinese Tales).
London.H.S. Nichols and Co. 1894. [v], viii, 1-252pp + [18]pp catalogue at rear. Tipped-in notice from the publisher at start. Original pictorial cloth gilt. Octavo. Limited edition being one of 680 printed. Limitation number not stated. Edges a trifle rubbed; corners lightly bumped; head and heel of spine a touch bumped with three tiny nicks to cloth at head and two at heel; gilt a touch dulled at heel of spine; some light spotting at start; else a very good copy.
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THE TRANSVAAL WAR ALBUM. The British Forces in South Africa An Album, wherein the various Regiments and other principal Units of the Forces engaged in The Boer Campaign of 1899-1900, are illustrated. Portraits are also given of the Generals who have conducted the operations, and the staff and Regimental Officers who have organized and lead the British and Colonial Forces.
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THE TRAVELLER: or, an entertaining journey round the Habitable Globe; being a novel and easy method pf studying Geography. Illustrated with forty-two plates, consisting of views of the principal capital cities of the world, and the costume of its various inhabitants.
London: J. Harris and Son, No date [1820]. viii, 204 pages. Illustrated with 2 maps, four hand-coloured engraved plates of costumes, and 18 plates of views, each bearing two hand-coloured engravings. Sometime re-bound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. 171 x 108 mm. First edition. The engraved vignette on the title has been coloured by a child owner; few marks here & there; else a very good copy, complete with half-title. See Moon 907(1).
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THE TRAVELLER’S COMPANION or the Post Roads of England and Wales; With the Distances in Measured Miles By the late John Rocque, Chorographer to the King.
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THE TRAVELLING POST OFFICES OF EGYPT. International T.P.O. Markings Series No. 4 - Egypt.
Mobile Post Office Society, 1983. 65 pages. Origianl printed wrappers. A fine copy.
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THE TRAVELS AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN BULL THE YOUNGER.
London: J. Harris and Son, 1824. Title and [14] leaves, printed on one side only and bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath; plus one page advertising Harris’s Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction. Lacks original wrappers; bound in recent plain paper wrappers. 169 x 108 mm. The occasional mark; neat gift inscription at head of title. A very good copy. Quite a scarce title. First published in 1823. See Moon 908(2).
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The Travels and Adventures of the Two Brothers, ALONZO & PIZARRO and the History of two Dogs.
London: T. Goode, No date [between 1847 and 1879]. 12 pages. Illustrated with a coloured wood-engraving on title, and two other small uncoloured woodcuts. Original printed wrapper with a woodcut to the upper panel. 160 x 104 mm. Two tiny tears to fore-edge of title; else a very good copy.
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THE TRAVELS AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN. Illustrated with twenty-three curious engravings, from the Baron’s own designs, and five woodcuts, by G. Cruikshank.
London: William Tegg, 1869. xii, [12], 268 pages. Illustrated with 23 hand-coloured plates and five uncoloured woodcuts. Original green pictorial cloth, gilt. All edges gilt. Octavo. One leaf of the ‘contents’ pages, where previously loose, has had some restoration to the blank margins; spine expertly strengthened at head & heel; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE TRAVELS OF MARCO POLO, The Venetian. The translation of Marsden revised, with a selection of his notes.
London.Henry G. Bohn. 1854. [6 ad's], xxviii, 508, [6 ad's]pp. Original blind-stamped cloth, gilt. octavo. First edition thus. Spine slightly faded and rubbed and worn at head & heel. Light spotting to advert' leaves at front & rear; else a very good copy
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THE TRAVELS OF REASON IN EUROPE. Translated from the French of Marquis Caraccioli.
London: J. Johnson, 1778. vi, 300 pages. Contemporary sheep, recently finely re-backed. 12mo in sixes. First edition. Corners worn, else a very good copy of this rare travel book. ESTC list two copies: British Library and Cornell University only. Marquis Louis-Antoine Caraccioli (6 November 1719 – 29 May 1803) was a prolific French writer, poet, historian, and biographer.
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THE TREASURE IN THE WILD WOOD. Illustrated by Irene Hawkins.
London.Faber and Faber Limited. 1947. [i-iv],5-52pp. 6 colour plates and many black & white illustrations throughout. Blue cloth, gilt. Pictorial dust wrapper and endpapers. Quarto. First Edition. Presentation copy inscribed on half-title by the illustrator; 'To Lesley with love from Irene Christmas 1947.' Slight fading to top and bottom edges of boards. Some very minor chipping to dust wrapper edges; else, an excellent copy.
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THE TREASURE OF THE GARDEN. A Play by Jack B. Yeats. Scenes and Characters together with Book of the Words and full Directions for Playing on a Miniature Stage.
London: Elkin Mathews, No date [1902]. [16] ] leaves [32 pages]; seven leaves bearing illustrations hand-coloured by Yeats.; the last leaf and advert' for another title in the series. Original blue wrappers with a hand-coloured vignette of a pirate to the upper panel. Quarto. Complete as issued, First and only edition. The book is worn; the spine repaired; the last two small blank corners and that of the lower wrapper lost; some creasing and staining of wrappers, but a good copy.
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