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THE GALLEON cut-out book.
London: Dean & Son Ltd, No date [circa 1945]. Softcover. 12 pages, including pictorial card covers, of which 10 are full-colour cut-outs to make the galleon "Santa Maria." 32 x 24.6 cm. A fine copy.
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THE GALOSHES OF FORTUNE. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with thirteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 119, [5 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative green cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE GAMUT and Time-Table in verse for the instruction of children by C. Finch. Embellished with twelve beautiful illustrations. Coloured engravings.
London: A. K. Newman & Co. Price One Shilling. No date [circa 1820]. 35 [36] pages, each leaf printed on one side only, but the blanks sides counted within the pagination. Illustrated with a hand-coloured engraved frontispiece and 11 other hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial blue wrappers. 170 x 102 mm. This title work was issued by both A. K. Newman and Dean and Son. Bookplate of Edward Arnold to front pastedown; inscription: ‘The Gift of Colonel Boyse to his Neice [sic] Jane, Ellen, Hunt, July 15th 1830.’ Spine expertly restored; small loss from top outer corner of front wrapper; else a very good copy.
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THE GEM. Or Useful Pocket Book, adapted for Youth.
London: R. & A. Suttary, Stationers’ Court, and J. Toumlin, Size Lane. Sold by all Booksellers, 1853. ii, 128 pages. Engraved frontispiece of Malacca. Original folding red leather wallet. Oblong, 72 x 106, the book itself is portrait. Signature of Mary Grieve to endpaper, and many entries in pencil and a few in ink, detailing the events of daily life in a small village in Oxfordshire in 1853. Scarce. The British Library holds a copy of this title for 1842.
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THE GEORGIE-PORGIE BOOK. Illustrated by Margaret Clayton.
London: Thomas Nelson & Sons, No date [circa 1912]. Unpaged. [24] leaves printed on one side only, of which 12 are text [including title], and 12 are charming colour plates depicting anthropomorphized mice. Original cloth with a pictorial pastedown to the upper panel. 235 x 180 mm. Presumed first edition. A near fine copy.
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THE GIANTS, THE KNIGHTS, AND THE PRINCESS VERBENA A Fairy Story. With illustrations by Hunkil Phranc.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1859. Title, 14 pages of text; pictorial half-title, 12 leaves of illustrations, printed on one side only. Contemporary half red sheep over cloth, with titling to uppers board. 4to. First edition. Some very occasional marking, and some light foxing; else a very good copy of a scarce children's book. COPAC records two copies only: British Library and the Bodleian Library.
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THE GIMCRACK JINGLE ALPHABET. Pictured by Ingles Rhode.
London: Dean & Son Limited, No date [1900]. Pictorial title-page in black & white, and 22 full-page coloured plates. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong: 24 x 32 cm. First edition. A near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE GOLDEN CABINET; or, The Compleat Fortune-Teller. Wherein the meanest Capacities are taught to understand their Good or Bad Fortunes, not only in the Wheel of Fortune, which is calculated to the Nicest Degree of any extant; but also by those Sublime Arts and Mysteries of Palmystry and Physiognomy, whereby you may discover at first Sight the Temper, Disposition, and likewise the Manner of whomsoever you desire to know.
London: Printed and Sold by J. Evans, No 41, Long-Lane, West Smithfield, No date [circa 1795]. Chapbook. 24 pages. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts. 15.7 x 9 cm. Spine expertly repaired and re-stitched. Trimmed very close in places, but without loss of letters; else a very good copy. Rare.
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THE GOLDEN HARP; Hymns, Rhymes, and Songs for the Young. Adapted by H. W. Dulken. With fifty-two illustrations by J. D. Watson, T. Dalziel, and J. Wolf. Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.
London: Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1864. xii, 160, [4 ad’s] pages. Original decorative cloth gilt. 190 x 140 mm. First edition. Gift inscription on endpaper; else a fine copy.
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THE GOLDEN PLAYBOOK comprising The Golden Alphabet, Dorothy’s Doll’s, and Red Riding Hood’s Party. With original illustrations by Alfred J. Johnson. Printed in gold and colours by Edmund Evans.
London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co, 1886. Unpaged. Illustrated with 16 single-page and one double-page, coloured plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt. 257 x 195mm. Bookplate; two inscriptions on endpaper; the front free endpaper has been neatly strengthened around its edges; else a very good copy of a charming book. Scarce.
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THE GOLLIWOGG’S “AUTO-GO-CART.” Pictures by Bertha Upton.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1901. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. First edition. Spine a little stained; light wear to edges and corners of boards; internally fine. Altogether, an unusually good copy.
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THE GOLLIWOGG’S BICYCLE CLUB. Verses by Bertha Upton.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1896. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. First edition. Some light wear to corners and edges. Altogether, an unusually good copy.
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THE GOLLIWOGG’S CIRCUS. By Florence Upton. Verses by Bertha Upton.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1903. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. First edition. Some creasing to front board; short tear in the gutter of one leaf; edges and corners a little rubbed; else a very good clean copy.
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THE GOLLIWOGG’S DESERT ISLAND. Verses by Bertha Upton.
London: Longmans, Green & Co, 1906. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Oblong quarto. First edition. Some light wear to corners and edges; presentation inscription at head of front board; the odd patch of foxing internally. Altogether, an unusually good copy. .
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THE GOLLIWOGG’S POLAR ADVENTURES. Verses by Bertha Upton. Pictures by Florence K. Upton.
London: Longmans. Green & Co, 1900. 64 pages. Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 220 x 282 mm. First edition. Light wear to board edges; some light marking to boards; else an excellent clean copy.
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THE GOOD BOY’S PRESENT; or, Henry and his Papa.
London: Printed and Published by A. Park, 47 Leonard Street, Finsbury, No date. [circa 1840]. [8] pages, each bearing an engraving with a verse below. Original pictorial pink wrappers. 180 x 106 mm. Wrappers a little worn; else very good.
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The Good Child’s Cabinet of NATURAL HISTORY. Embellished with 32 fine Engravings. Vol. 3. FISHES.
London: John Wallis, No 16, Ludgate Street, June 10th. 1801. [36] pages. Fine engraved frontispiece and 31 wood-engravings in the text. Original boards, sometime re-backed in black roan, with the original pictorial title label to the upper board. 103 x 69 mm. First. Edition. Rare. One of five volumes that comprised. ‘Wallis’s Elegant Present of Natural History,’ a boxed library issued by Wallis in 1801, and still in print as late as 1813. See Alderson, ‘Miniature Libraries For the Young,’ page 24.
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The Good Child’s Cabinet of NATURAL HISTORY. Embellished with 32 fine Engravings. Vol. 4. INSECTS.
London: John Wallis, No 16, Ludgate Street, June 10th. 1801. [36] pages. Fine engraved frontispiece and 31 wood-engravings in the text. Original boards, sometime re-backed in black roan, with the original pictorial title label to the upper board. 103 x 69 mm. First. Edition. Rare. One of five volumes that comprised. ‘Wallis’s Elegant Present of Natural History,’ a boxed library issued by Wallis in 1801, and still in print as late as 1813. See Alderson, ‘Miniature Libraries For the Young,’ page 24. [14771]
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THE GOOD CHILD’S PICTURE BOOK OF BIRDS. Price sixpence coloured.
[London.]: E. Wallis, 42 Skinner Street, Snow Hill, No date. Circa 1830. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, each bearing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original printed stiff wrappers. 158 x 101 mm. An excellent copy. Rare.
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THE GOOD CHILD’S PRIMER. Tom Thumb’s Alphabet. A.B.C.
London: W. S. Fortey, Printer & Publisher, 2&3, Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, No date [circa 1850/60]. [8] pages. Illustrated with six woodcuts. Original printed wrappers with a cut of Tom Thumb to the upper panel. 125 x 93 mm. Wrapper a little creased at fore-edge, else very good.
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