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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. 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 with the original pictorial title label to the upper board. 103 x 69 mm. First. Edition. Little loose in binding; spine cracking and some small loss of paper from the spine; else a very good copy. 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 PICTURE-BOOK OF PET ANIMALS. Containing Sixteen Coloured Illustrations.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, No date [inscribed 1878]. Title and 16 leaves of text, all printed on one side only. Sixteen chromolithograph plates in full colour. Original pictorial cloth gilt. 295 x 222 mm. Ownership name and date on free endpaper; front inner joint slightly cracked; rear board a little marked; else a very good, clean copy.
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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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THE GOOD FAIRY; or, The Adventures of Sir Richard Whittington R. Crusoe, Esq. Master Jack Horner, and others. A play… with a particular description of A Theatre contrived by Albert Rutherston; and which is contained herewith.
Lodon: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd, (1923.). 62 pages. Original pictorial cards wrappers, the front formed into a pouch to hold a full colour sheet (4x3 feet), designed to be cut-up and mounted, so providing the characters and the toy theatre, Some spotting, else a very good copy of an eccentric and charming production. The sheet was also designed as a poster for the underground railway.
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THE GOOD FARMER; Being an entertaining History of Thomas Wiseman; who procured riches and a good name, by the paths of virtue and industry. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [ circa 1830]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and fourteen woodcuts. Original printed wrappers, with a cut to both upper and lower panels. Wrapper dimensions: 11.3 x 7 cm. Uncut. A very nice copy. The first cut in the book, which precedes the frontispiece shows an interior view of Rusher's warehouse.
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THE GOOD FATHER and Prudent Son. To which is added, The Mother, A Poem. Embellished with 14 fine Engravings on wood.
London: Printed for Whitrow & Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1820s]. (Price Threepence.) 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece and fourteen small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. A near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE GOOD FATHER and Prudent Son, To which is added The Mother, A Poem. Embellished with 14 fine Engravings on Wood.
London: Whitrow and Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, &c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1815-20]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks, pasted to the wrappers. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and fourteen small cuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 116 x 75 mm. Slight wear to corners of wrappers; else a very good copy of a scarce chapbook.
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THE GOOD GIRL'S PRESENT; or, Mary & Her Mmama.
London: A. Park, No date [circa 1840's]. [8] pages, each with a wood-engraving and text. Original printed pink wrappers, the upper panel bearing a wood-engraving. 18 x 10.7 cm. Top outer corners a little turned; else very good.
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THE GOOD SON. Merriment Series, and Sister Lady-Bird’s Series.
London: Dean and Son, No date, but inscribed 1854. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 238 x 165 mm. Spine expertly repaired; name and date on front wrapper; neat manuscript numbering to the corner of all pages, suggesting this toy book was once bound with many others; else a very good copy.
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