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TOLD IN THE TWILIGHT by F. E. Weatherley. Illustrated by M. Ellen Edwards & John C. Staple.
London: Hildesheimer and Faulkner, No date [1880s]. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout with chromolithographs. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covers boards. 238 x 185 mm. Small bookplate. A very fresh, clean copy.
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TOLEDO Selection of texts and commentaries: Fernando Espejo Garcia Francisco Zarco Morenzo.
León.Everest. 1967. [8], 9-425pp. Illustrated in black & white and colour throughout. Original decorative buckram gilt. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. fore-edges just beginning to brown; wrapper a trifle faded at edges; else a very good, clean copy.
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TOM BROWN'S SCHOOL DAYS. By an Old Boy. Second edition.
Cambridge.Macmillan & Co. 1857. viii, 420 pages, [4 pages ad's], 24 pages ad's dated January 1857. Bound in recent half morocco over marbled boards, the spine with raised gilt bands, and gilt decoration to the panels. Octavo. A handsome and clean copy. Published the same year as the first edition.
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TOM GORDON: or, Little Bessie's Prayer.
Glasgow: John S. Marr & Sons, 1885. Hardcover. 128 pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative cloth gilt. First edition. Small rub on endpaper; else a very good copy.
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TOM TAYLOR.
London: Elliott & Fry, 1860s. Carte-de-visite of Tom Taylor, the famous 19th century English dramatist, critic, biographer, public servant, and editor of Punch, by Elliott & Fry, 55 Baker Street, Portman Square. Condition very good. 10.4 x 6.2 cm.
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TOM THE PIPER’S SON. Price One Halfpenny.
York: R. Burdekin, No date [circa 1820’s]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. 85 x 58 mm. Illustrated with sixteen woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only a single copy of this title, in the Pierpont Morgan Library.
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TOM THE PIPER’S SON. With all the fun That he had done And how at last he went to France to teach great Bonaparte to dance.
London: J. E. Evans, No date [circa 1820]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts. Expert repair to spine; else in excellent condition. Rare, Worldcat shows 1 copy only. The British Libray, together with the Opies, date this as 1803, but we feel it may well be a little later.
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TOM THUMB.
London: F. Warne & Co, Bedford Street., Covent Garden, No date [circa 1880]. [8] leaves, including wrappers, printed on one side only, and each bearing a coloured wood-engraving with verses beneath. 152 x 107 mm. A very good copy.
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TOM THUMB.
London:-: Printed and Published by W.S. Johnson 60, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross, No date [circa 1850]. A panoramic pull-out book of 12 panels, of which, four bear text and the remaining 8, hand-coloured engravings; folding into original wrappers; the upper panel title and bearing an engraving of Tom Thumb. Extended: 108 x 12 cm. Folded: 12 x 10 cm. Worn and chipped and creased, with one joint splitting, but a rare survival. Contained in a modern cloth and paper case. The Hockliffe project website has another title in the same series: Old Mother Goose.
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TOM THUMB.
London: Printed & Published by G. Ingram. 41, Old Street, St. Luke, No date [circa 1850]. [8] pages. Illustrated with rather crude wood-engravings. Original pictorial wrappers with an uppercase alphabet to the lower panel. 130 x 95 mm. Edges frayed and worn, but without loss to the text; spine repaired; else a very good copy of a scarce publication. ]
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TOM THUMB; A Burletta, altered from Henry Fielding. With designs by George Cruickshank.
London.Thomas Rodd. 1830. [5], 6-34, [2], [1], 2-4, [4]pp advertisements. Frontispiece, vignette on title page, four black & white plates and vignette tail piece on final page. Original pictorial paper covers. 12mo. First edition. Wrappers a trifle marked and dust-soiled, and all paper lost from the spine; a few spots to inner margin of pages 11-13; small loss to top edge of page 21/22; top corners of pages 21-24 a little turned and finger-marked; advertisements at rear a little spotted; small bookseller's label to top corner of inside front cover. A very good copy of a first issue with a mistake in pagination [pp. 29 - 30]. and all adverts at rear, including two smaller ad's, one being printed on yellow paper.
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TOM THUMB. Dean's Pickaninny Series 2.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [circa 1890-1900]. [8] pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated in full colour on covers and centrefold; the others pages illustrated on line. 15.2 x 9 cm. An excellent copy of an ephemeral little book. Very scarce.
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TOM THUMB The Diverting History of his Life Decorated by Enid Marx. A Bantam Picture Book No. 32.
London: Transatlantic Arts Ltd, No date [1944/46]. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original wrappers. 13.2 x 9.5 cm. Light rusting of staples, else a fine copy
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TOM THUMB’S FOLIO; or, A New Penny Play-thing, for Little Giants: to which is prefixed, an Abstract of the Life of Mr. Thumb, and an Historical Account of the Wonderful Deeds he Performed.
York: J. Kendrew. 32 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated throughout with six woodcuts and a tailpiece. Original printed wrappers with cuts to both upper and lower panels 9.5 x 6.5 cm. Spine expertly repaired. A very nice copy. Davis 53.
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TOM THUMB’S FOLIO; or, a New Penny Plaything, for Little Giants: to which is prefixed, an abstract of the Life of Mr. Thumb, and an historical account of the Wonderful Deeds he Performed.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the printed wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece, and 6 woodcuts in the text. 102 x 65 mm. Wrappers a little dust-soiled, else a very good copy of this chapbook.
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TOM THUMB'S PLAY BOOK to teach children their letters, by a New and Pleasant Method. Price Two pence.
Alnwick: Stereotyped and Printed by W. Davison, No date [circa 1840's]. 36 pages including outer paste-down wrappers. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts, some by Thomas Bewick. Original wrappers with a woodcut of a dog to the upper wrapper. 138 x 91 mm. A fine copy.
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TOM THUMB’S PLAY-BOOK, to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Or, Easy Lessons for little children and beginners. Being a new and pleasant Method to allure little ones into the first Principles of Learning.
Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and sold by J. Marshall. Sold by the principal Booksellers in Town and Country, 1811. 48 pages. Woodcut of a house on page 2; 24 woodcuts of animals, after Jn John Bewick, illustrating the alphabet. Original o near contemporary plain buff wrappers. 98 x 86 mm. Wrapper and first four leaves turned and a little frayed to the top 2 cm; paper a little browned; else a very good copy of a rare chapbook.
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TOM TUCKER.
Newcastle-on-Tyne: W. R. Walker, Royal Arcade, No date [circa 1840]. [8] pages, each with a wood-cut and verse. Original pictorial green wrappers. Octavo. Four of the cuts are poorly hand-coloured as issued; the remainder are uncoloured. The wood blocks were clearly assembled from whatever was to hand, as, in one illustration, Tom is represented by a buxom shepherdess. A very good copy.
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TOM TUCKER.
London: Printed and Sold by J. T. Wood, 278, Strand, No date [circa 1850s]. 8 pages. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured woodcuts. Original printed wrappers with a hand-coloured woodcut to the upper panel. 112 x 74 mm. A very good copy.
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TOM TUCKER. Price One Penny.
London: [J] March, Pr. 12 Webber St, No date [circa 1870s]. [8] pages. Illustrated with 4 full-page engravings. Original wrappers with colour-printed wood-engravings to both panels. 139 x 83 mm. A very good copy. Scarce.
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