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The Young Gentleman and Lady’s INSTRUCTOR; or new reader and speaker: being A Choice Collection of pieces in poetry and prose, designed as a pleasing and useful companion to young persons in general.
London: R. Harrild, 1808. [2], iv, 84 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece; vignette on title. Sometime nicely rebound in quarter Morocco over paper-covered boards, but with the original printed shaped label mounted on the front board. 12mo. Rare. No copy listed in Library Hub.
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THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN AND LADY’S PHILOSOPHY, in a continued survey of the works of Nature and Art; By Way of Dialogue. Volume I. containing The Philosophy of the Heavens and of the Atmosphere. Illustrated by Thirty-three copper-Plates. The second edition, corrected.
London.Printed and Sold by W. Owen, Temple Bar; and by the Author, at his house in Fleet-Street. 1772. [12], 408, [18 index], [1 blank], [1 ‘Directions to binder’] pages. Engraved frontispiece and thirty-four engraved plates. Contemporary full calf with red title label. Octavo. One folding plate torn and creased, but complete; head of spine worn with small loss; bookplate; else a very good copy of volume I only of the second edition.
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THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S AND LADY’S MAGAZINE, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction and Amusement, Intended to open the tender Mind to an acquaintance with Life, Morals, & Science, the Works of Nature and of Art; and to serve as an useful auxiliary to Public and Private Tuition. Vol. 1.
London: J. Walker…. E. Newbery…, No date [1799]. Volume I. Numbers 1-VI. Engraved title followed by six monthly parts, each with its own title-page with the imprint: London. Printed for the Editors, and sold by J. Walker…. E. Newbery…. 468, [4 ad’s] pages. Engraved title and 20 plates and charts. This copy lacks two plates: the duplicate of the ‘Moss Rose’ and the frontispiece, which has been replaced with the coloured engraving of the moss rose. Bound in recent half calf gilt over marbled boards. 175 x 112 mm. This magazine ran for one year and two volumes, comprising a total of twelve monthly parts, ceasing publication abruptly in 1800. Rare. This is the only copy we have ever handled. Roscoe J393.
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THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN'S LIBRARY. With twelve fine plates.
London.A. K. Newman and Company. No date. [Circa 1835/40.]. iv, 248pp. Illustrated with ten full-page plates. Original quarter roan gilt backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. Cover title: 'The Young Gentleman's Library: an Amusing and Instructive Selection for Youth.' Binding a little cocked; small blank corner torn from one plate; the odd mark here & there; else a very good copy of a scarce title.Not found in COPAC or in the British Library online catalogue.
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THE YOUNG LADY'S BOOK. A manual of elegant recreations, arts, science, and accomplishment. Edited by distinguished Professors. With 1200 woodcuts.
London.Henry G. Bohn. Undated [inscribed 1887]. [v], vi, [viii], [9], 10-590pp + 24pp catalogue at rear. Black and white engraved frontispiece, illustrated title page and numerous steel and wood-engraved illustrations throughout the text. Original decorative cloth gilt. Top edges gilt. Octavo. Ownership name to half title else a near fine copy.
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THE YOUNG LADY'S POCKET LIBRARY, OR PARENTAL MONITOR; containing, I. Dr. Gregory’s Father’s Legacy to his Daughters. II. Lady Pennington’s Unfortunate Mother's advice to her Daughters. III. Marchioness de Lamber's advice of a Mother to her Daughter. IV. Moore's Fables for the Female Sex. Third edition.
Edinburgh. London.J. Thomson Jun. and Co. John Murray. 1808. [1], 2-213pp. Engraved frontispiece. Contemporary full calf gilt. Spine expertly repaired; light loss of gilt from spine; light spotting to rear endpapers; ownership names to front free endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE YOUNG MOTHER. By Mrs. Sherwood.
London: Wightman and Cramp, No date [circa late 1820's]. Softcover. 16 pages. Wood-engraved vignette on cover/title. 15 x9.3 cm. Dis-bound from a collection of tracts, and displaying evidence of such on the spine; unstitched. Number 24 in the series. A very good copy.
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THE YOUNG NATURALIST, A New History of Foreign and British Beasts. Price Two-pence.
Chelmsford: I. Marsden, No date [circa 1830.]. 24 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a full-page pastedown frontispiece, and eight small woodcuts and two tail-pieces. Original printed pastedown wrappers, with woodcuts to both panels. 12.7 x 7.3 cm. Frontispiece has a patch of light staining; small blank corner chipped from title; else very good.
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THE YOUNG PHILOSOPHER; A Novel.
London: T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1798. Four volumes. viii, 274; [ii], 278; [ii], 284; [ii], 400, pages. Contemporary half calf gilt over marbled boards. 12mo. First edition. Some old corner creases; bindings a little rubbed and worn; else a very good, clean set of Smith’s last novel in which her principle protagonist the ‘philosopher’ Delmont abandons class-bound and restrictive England for the freedoms offered in egalitarian America.
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THE YOUNG PILGRIM OR ALFRED CAMPBELL'S Return to the East. And his travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petrea, &c, &c.
London.John Harris. 1826. xii, 211, 2pp (publisher's advertisements). Engraved frontispiece and 5 other engraved plates, each bearing to images. Original quarter sheep over pictorial paper-covered boards. 12mo. First edition. Corners bumped and a little worn; spine rubbed with a slight wear to head and heel. Boards a little marked through wear and some darkening to the edge of the spine on back board. Bookseller 's label pasted on to front end paste-down. Some offset discolouration from the plates on to the opposite page, else a very good copy.
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THE YOUNG PILGRIM. Or Alfred Campbell's Return to the East: and his travels in Egypt, Nubia, Asia Minor, Arabia Petrea, &c. Illustrated with twelve engravings. New edition, with additions.
London: A. K. Newman, 1841. Xii, 239, [1], [8 ad's] pages. Separate engraved title, and 12 engravings on six plates. Original red cloth, gilt. 12mo. Binding just splitting at head & heel of spine; else a very good, clean copy. First published in 1826.
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THE YOUNG TRAVELLER; or Adventures of Etienne in Search of his Father. A Tale for Youth.
London.John Harris. 1825. [xii], [1], [2] - 124, 8 (advertisements) pp. Black and white engraved frontispiece. Half bound, marble boards with roan. 12 mo. Second edition. Boards and spine worn and rubbed with bumping and wear to edges; lacks front free endpaper; some browning to first and last pages and marks from wax or glue and small round labels on endpapers and paste-downs; offsetting from frontispiece on title-page; a few pencil marks. A very good copy nevertheless.
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THE YOUNG TRAVELLER'S DELIGHT; containing the Lives of several Noted Characters likely to amuse all good Children.
Chelmsford: Printed and Sold by I. Marsden, No date [circa 1830]. Softcover. 24 pages including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, four full-page woodcuts, and one small wood-engraved vignette. Original printed wrappers, with a wood-engraving to the lower panel. 12.9 x 7.5 cm. Partly unopened; small loss of paper on upper cover; small patch of water-staining; else a very good copy.
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THE YOUNG VOYAGEURS, or the Boy Hunters in the North. With twelve illustrations by W. Harvey.
London: David Bogue, 1854. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Sometime [19th century] rebound in full green calf, gilt, red label to spine. All edges gilt. viii, 471 pages. Illustrated with 12 engraved plates. Octavo. First edition. Spine a little rubbed and faded; some marking and browning to the title and to the frontispiece; ownership name of Jane Brennan Reid to front endpaper. A good plus copy.
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THE YOUTH’S GUIDE, adapted to the use of schools, containing a variety of original reading and spelling lessons. By a gentleman. Second Edition. Embellished with superior engravings.
Deal: T. Hayward. London. Longman & Co…, 1829. 93 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved alphabet, and many woodcuts within the text. Original sheep-backed printed paper-covered boards. 153 x 99mm. Loss to head & heel of spine; ink inscription on endpaper; else a very good copy of a scarce provincial imprint. £275. 00.
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THE YOUTH’S GUIDE TO WISDOM, containing a choice selection of maxims and morals for the rising generation.
London: R. Harrild, 20, Great Eastcheap, No date [circa 1815]. Price Threepence. 31[32] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and fourteen woodcuts within the text. Original printed blue wrappers. 112 x 71 mm. A very good copy of a scarce chapbook. Library Hub records one copy only
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THE YOUTHFUL TRAVELLERS; or, Letters chiefly descriptive of scenes visited by some young people during a summer excursion, designed as examples of the epistolary style for children.
London: William Darton, 1823. 178 pages, Engraved frontispiece and two other engraved plates. Original quarter sheep gilt over marbled boards. 148 x 95 mm. First edition. Blank recto of frontispiece a little spotted; some off-setting to the title; spine expertly repaired. A very good copy. Darton H1506.
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THE ZOO ON SUNDAY.
London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Pasted to the front fixed endpaper in a 18 line typed letter from the author, signed Frank, in ink. ‘To My Dear Peg’ [Peggy Chappe Hall], explaining that the book has been developed from some sketches that he drew for her, and that ‘if it hadn’t been for you, this book would never have been written.’ Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy of an uncommon title. [15072]
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THE ZOO ON SUNDAY.
London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd, 1925. 74 pages. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 255 x 195 mm. First edition. Boards a little rubbed and worn; else a very good presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: ‘With love from Frank, hoping it will amuse you. I got the idea of this book from a man in Rhodesia who had mixed his drinks and declared that he had shot a “Rhinostrich” and a “Hipposoceros”!!’
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THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS. Aunt Louisa's London Toy Books, 1/- or Mounted 2/-.
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [inscribed 1883]. 6 pages of text, the first and last as pastedowns to the covers; 6 full-page colour chromo-lithograph illustrations by Kronheim & Co.; all mounted on linen. Original covers, the upper pictorial, the lowers bearing ad's. 26 x 23 cm. Inscription in the upper border of the first page. A very nice copy.
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