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THE HAPPY BOOK. Pictured by Millicent Sowerby. Told by Githa Sowerby.
London: Henry Frowde, No date [1909]. Unpaged [24] leaves, printed on one side only. Illustrated with 12 colour plates, and head-pieces in monochrome. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 164 x 122 mm. First edition. Tiny split in spine, but without loss; neat inscription, ‘Xmas 1909.’ On front pastedown; else a very good copy.
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THE HAPPY COTTAGER. No. XVIII. – One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1825]. 16 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with five woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wrapper. 84 x 58 mm. Spine expertly restored; else an excellent copy. Worldcat records one copy only at UCLA.
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THE HAPPY COURTSHIP, MERRY MARRIAGE, AND PIC NIC DINNER, OF COCK ROBIN, AND JENNY WREN. To which is added, Alas! The Doleful Death of the Bridegroom.
London: J. Harris, 1814. 16 pages. Illustrated with 26 engraved plates. Lacks original wrappers; bound in recent half red roan gilt over marbled boards. 125 x 110 mm. As Mrs. Moon notes, some of the plates are very worn but nine are new for this edition. Title has a small printing flaw which has left the word ‘Happy’ somewhat askew; else a very good copy.
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THE HARDY TIN SOLDIER. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with fourteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 118, [6 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative red cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; head of spine just a little worn; else a very good copy.
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THE HARE AND MANY FRIENDS, A Fabulous Tale, Embellished with Engravings. Designed, Engraved, Published, and Sold, by W. Orme.
London: W. Orme, 1808. (Paper watermarked 1807.). Title, 6pp text; 8 full-page engraved plates. Lacking original wrappers. Recently rebound in quarter red sheep gilt over marbled boards with vellum tips. 16mo. First edition. Some crease-marks; else a very good copy of a rare title. Very scare. No copy in any of the major collections. Not listed in COPAC. The Cotsen Children’s Library has a later edition, circa 1810, issued by John Wallis.
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THE HARE AND THREE LEVERETTS. A Moral Story. By Alfred Priest.
Norwich: Charles Muskett. London. D. Bogue, 1848. [2], 32 pages, plus a frontispiece and 8 other lithographic plates, all hand-coloured as issued. Original printed paper-covered boards. Oblong: 122 x 159 mm. First edition. Some light spotting and browning; small mark on front board, else a very good copy of a charming, if somewhat morbid, moral tale of hares, foxes and hounds. Scarce. Copac list two copies only.
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THE HATCHET THROWERS. With thirty-six illustrations, drawn on wood, by Ernest Griset, from his original designs.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1866. 164, [12 ad’s] pages. All engravings hand-coloured as issued. Original pictorial blue cloth gilt. Octavo. 230 x 200 mm. First edition. Re-cased at some time with the original spine laid down and new endpapers. A very good, clean copy.
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THE HATCHET THROWERS. With thirty-six illustrations, drawn on wood, by Ernest Griset, from his original designs.
London: John Camden Hotten, 1866. 164, [12 ad’s] pages. All engravings hand-coloured as issued. Sometime rebound in half calf gilt over marbled boards. Octavo. 227 x 200 mm. First edition. The first signature is a little worn at the fore-edge where once loose. A very good, clean copy.
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THE HIND OF THE FOREST; or, The Enchantedd Princess. Marcus Ward's Royal Illuminated Legends. Gorgeously illuminated, after the Mediæval manner, in colours and gold by Marcus Ward, Illuminator to the Queen. Told anew in Verse, by Francis Davis; with the antient Music, arranged by B. H. Carroll.
Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, No date [circa 1872]. Softcover. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the covers. Illustrated with 4 full-page plates printed in colours and gold. Oblong: 18.8 x 27.7 cm. Slightly trimmed where once bound in a collection; spine expertly repaired; pencil inscription for 1872; else a very good copy.
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THE HIPPODROME ABC.
London: F. Warne & Co, No date [1905]. [16] pages, including covers. A predominantly circus themed alphabet illustrated in chromolithography. Original pictorial wrappers. 32.2 x 25.3 cm. Little worn at spine and edges; else an excellent and scarce alphabet.
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THE HISTORIAN; or, Memoirs of Dick Dolittle and Charles Somners. Enriched with beautiful Engravings. (Price Twopence.)
London: Howard and Evans, No date. [Between 1800- 1811.]. [36] pages, including outer pastedown wrappers.. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and four other full-page wood-engravings. Original pastedown marbled paper wrappers. Little tired; else a very good copy of a rare title. No copy located in WorldCat.
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THE Histories of TOM THE PIPER'S SON and TOM TUCKER. Illustrated by Cruikshank. Read's Children's Tales. &c. Price 6d. on paper. Untearable cloth 1s.
London: Read & Co., Publishers & Printers... Jas. Campbell, Toronto and Montreal, No date [circa 1865/70]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only and laid on linen, the first and last pasted to the covers, each beaing a hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original pictorial colour-printed wrappers. 23.8 x 18 cm. Spine expertly restored; some creasing and wear, small bookseller's paper label to front wrapper. A very good copy of a superb Read toybook.
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THE HISTORIES OF WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT, and Little King Pippin. Embellished with neat Wood-engravings.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd. Price Twopence. No date [circa 1840s]. 32 pages including wrappers. Wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece, and small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel and a booklist to the lower. 130 x 83 mm. Covers a little dust-soiled; gift inscription at head of first page; else a very good copy.
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The History & Adventures of the Renowned Princes Valentine & Orson.
London: Didier & Tebbett, No date [watermarked 1806]. 12 leaves each printed on one side only, and each bearing an engraving with text beneath. Lacks original wrappers; bound in later half calf gilt over marbled boards. 126 x 109 mm. First edition thus. Some slight cropping to headlines; else a very good copy of rare title, no copy listed on Worldcat.
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THE HISTORY AND ADVENTURES OF LITTLE HENRY, Exemplified in a series of Figures. The Seventh Edition.
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1811. Comprising of a 20 page book with ribbon ties; seven costumes; one hat and an interchangeable head, all being finely hand-coloured aquatints; a printed slipcase. Lacks three hats. Henry’s head a little darkened and with a repair from blank verso; else a very good example.
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THE HISTORY AND GALLANT ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM.
London: Didier & Tebbett, 1808. 12 leaves each printed on one side only, and each bearing an engraving with text beneath. Lacks original wrappers; bound in later half calf gilt over marbled boards. 126 x 109 mm. First edition thus. Some slight cropping to headlines; tear in one leaf repaired from the blank recto; else a very good copy of rare title, Worldcat recording one copy only. The rhymes based on Richard Johnson's Most famous history of the seven champions of Christendome, the earliest known version of which was published in 1596
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THE HISTORY OF A APPLE PIE. Written by Z.
London: O[rlando] Hodgson, 1 Maiden Lane, Wood St. Cheapside, No date [circa 1830]. [13] leaves, each printed on one side only, and bearing engraved text and a hand-coloured engraving. Recent plain blue wrappers and new endpapers with the pictorial title portion of the original upper wrapper mounted on the front panel. 165 x 106 mm. The alphabet is complete but there is a stub at the rear of the book, conjugant with the titlepage, which is probably an excised blank. A very scarce variant of this popular title.
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THE HISTORY OF A CLERGYMAN’S WIDOW, and her Young Family. By Mrs. Hofland. Seventh edition.
London: A. K. Newman, 1825. [4], 176 pages. Engaged frontispiece and a separate engraved title with vignette. Original red quarter roan over marbled boards. 146 x 91 mm. Ownership name on endpaper; binding a little rubbed and worn at corners, else a very good copy of a work first published in 1812.
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THE HISTORY OF A GOOD CHILD.
London: J. & C. Evans, No date [circa 1830]. 24 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a pastedown frontispiece, and woodcut on the title, and six cuts in the text. Original printed wrappers with cuts to both upper and lower panels. 100 x 63 mm. Little loose and with stitching holes where it was once over-sewn. Scarce.
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THE HISTORY OF A LITTLE BOY Found Under an Haycock. Founded on facts.
York: James Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. [16] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and thirteen woodcuts with the text. Original yellow printed wrappers. 99 x 67 mm. The text and illustration extend to the lower wrapper. A fine copy.
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