London: John Lane, 1900. [6], 95 pages. Original pictorial cloth. 217 x 217 mm. First edition. Some spotting on front endpapers; else A very good copy.

Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd, 1922. Alternate English and Latin text, the Latin translations by T. R. Glover. Xxi, [4], 83, 83 pages. Portrait frontispiece. Original blue cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition thus. Some light spotting, little stronger on endpapers; spine mellowed; else very good.

London.Sands & Co. 1900. 64pp. illustrated in monochrome throughout. Original pictorial cloth. 4to. First edition. Two illustrations have some pencil lines drawn across them which are not particularly offensive; extremities a little bumped; endpapers spotted; some finger-marking; little shaken; else a very good copy of a particularly scare Moore-Park title.

Portsea: Printed and Sold by J,. Horsey. Sold also by Booksellers in Portsea and Portsmouth; and by T. Williams, Stationer's-Court. London, 1805. 58 pages. Original printed buff wrappers. 13.7 x 8.7 cm. Some corners turned; spine expertly repaired; occasional minor staining; else a good copy. The British Library hold copies of the fourth and seventh edition.

London: Addey and Co, 1853. [31] pages. 9 full-page etchings and two smaller illustrations within pages of text, all finely hand-coloured by Eleanor Vere Boyle. Original leather-backed brown cloth gilt. All edges gilt. Oblong folio. First edition. Slight rubbing to spine; some spotting throughout as is usual with this book; short marginal tear to one leaf of text; lower corners bumped; else a very good copy of one of the finest children’s books of the nineteenth century. Hand-coloured copies are rare. The prose contribution is by the illustrator's cousin, Mary Boyle, and the verse by W. M. Call. A Children's Summer was much praised by John Ruskin, Thomas Landseer, Tom Taylor, and Francis Turner Palgrave.

London: Addey and Co, 1853. [. 15] leaves of text. Illustrated with 8 full-page etchings and two vignettes. Original half calf over blue ribbed cloth gilt. Oblong: 285 x 371 mm. First edition. Presentation copy from E.V.B. to Wathen Mark Wilks Call, inscribed on title-page: ‘W. M. W. Call from EVB with her best Christmas good wishes! Dec 23nd 1852.’ There are some pencil annotations in pencil in Call’s hand, mostly the addition of his initials to verses he has authored. Some foxing, as is common with this title; front endpaper worn and with some loss; front board rubbed and slightly damped; else a very good copy of an important presentation copy. A Children’s Summer was E.V.B.’s second book.

London.Macmillan and Co. 1888. viii, 215, [1 blank], 32pp ad's. Vignette on title, and eight full-page black & white plates. Original pictorial cloth, gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding very slightly cocked; one corner a little bumped; some very light flecking on upper panel; small bookplate; else a very good copy indeed.

London: Staples Press Limited, 1958. Hardcover. Unprice-clipped dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. The dust-wrapper is very slightly worn at extremities; else an excellent copy without inscriptions.

London: John Hearne, 1829. viii, [4], 140, iv pages. Illustrated with three had-coloured plans, 2 of which are folding. Original paper-covered boards, sometime re-backed in plain cloth. Original printed title-label to upper board. 225 x 148 mm. The two large folding plans both have short tears near the margin; boards a little rubbed and knocked; armorial bookplate of George H. Whitehead, and blind-stamped address to title; else a very good copy.

London.Jones and Co, 1823. 2 volumes. 286pp. 138 engraved plates. Full diced calf gilt. Almost certainly intended to be bound as one (Though this would have created an extremely cumbersome little book.) as the pagination is continuous throughout both volumes, and the placing of the second title page would appear to be determined by convenience. Crudely repaired tear in the folding frontispiece to volume one; else a very attractive set of this interesting work.The author's efforts are more commonly encountered in his sobering Scripture History For Youth.

London.J. Russell Smith. 1869. [ix], xxvi, [1], 2-236pp. 4 black & white plates including frontispiece. Original cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine and corners a little bumped; endpapers, half-title and final page browned; paper beginning to brown; bookplate to front paste-down endpaper; else a very good copy.A second and concluding volume followed in 1872.

London: Printed for the Booksellers of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, and sold at the Bible and Sun in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1765. Original Dutch floral patterned paper-covered boards. Contained in a modern folding cloth box. Very worn, with 16 pages in facsimile taken from another printing, the paging of which does not always match. Roscoe J346(6). This edition not traced by Roscoe. This title is thought to have been first published by John Newbery in 1756. Clearly the edition claims are not realistic.

London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the King’s most Excellent Majesty, And by the Assigns of Henry Hills, deceas’d, 1726. [8], 128 pages. Contemporary calf, sometime re-labelled. 165 x 105 mm. Some worming in the lower margin in the middle section of the book, but not affecting text; some damp-staining; three bookplates; else very good. Scarce.

1914. PROGRAMME of the Presentation of Colours to the 2nd Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers. (5th Regiment of Foot.) By His Excellency The Right Honourable Charles, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst., G.CB., G.M.I.E., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., I.S.O. on the 15th May 1914, at Sabathu. Two printed silk leaves (four pages), the spine bound with the regimental colours. Some light crease-marking; else very good.

London: John Nichols and Son, 1819. vi, 190 pages. Illustrated with 11 engraved plates, and with four engravings within the text. Bound in recent two-tone paper-covered boards with a printed title label to the spine. 4to. First edition. According to a pencil note on the title only 125 copies of this work were printed. Some light foxing & browning; some off-setting from the plates; but a very good copy of a scarce work.

London.John Russell Smith. 1855. [v], ix, 10-278pp. Original blind decorative cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Head and heel of spine badly chipped with a loss of 2 cm's. at head; board corners bumped and worn; ownership inscription to title page; else a good copy of a scarce title.

London.M. Cooper. 1758. I. An Account of the Rise of Ship-Building, among the ancient Egyptians and Grecians, and of its Arrival about the year of Christ 870. There are nine more headings listed on the title-page, the last reading: X. Of the present State of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, containing the Number of Ships, Rates, Guns and Complements of Men. iv, 64pp. Fairly recently rebound in half calf over marbled boards. Octavo. First and only edition. Some off-set browning on title and last leaf from the original binding; bookplate; else an excellent copy of a rare work. COPAC lists British Library copy only.