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  • The History of LTTLE JACK, Who Was Suckled by a Goat. With a Coloured Engraving.
    The History of LTTLE JACK, Who Was Suckled by a Goat. With a Coloured Engraving.

    Derby: Thomas Richardson. Price Two-pence, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original buff wrappers. 13.9 x 9 cm. Spine expertly restored, 3.5 cm repaired tear to rear wrapper; else fine.

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  • THE HISTORY OF LUCY GRAY.
    THE HISTORY OF LUCY GRAY.

    London: R. Carr, 101, Houndsditch, No date [between 1830 – 1850]. 8 pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with seven wood-engravings; those on the wrappers being hand-coloured as issued. 110 x 70 mm. A very good copy. A scarce chapbook.

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  • THE HISTORY OF LUCY JONES. Parts 1 and 2, Sunday School Tracts, Number 5 & 6.
    THE HISTORY OF LUCY JONES. Parts 1 and 2, Sunday School Tracts, Number 5 & 6.

    Published by W. Kent 116, High Holborn, No date [after 1806]. 4th edition. Each part 12 pages. Each with a wood-engraving on the front cover/title-page. 12mo. Part 1 bears an inscription at the top of the title: ‘Rev’d G. Waldron to Mr. William Moule.’ A very good set. First published in 1806.

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  • THE HISTORY OF MARTEN, and his Two Little Scholars At Sunday=School. By the Author of "The History of Margaret Whyte," "The Two Lambs," &c. &c. by [CAMERON, Mrs. Lucy.]
    [CAMERON, Mrs. Lucy.]
    THE HISTORY OF MARTEN, and his Two Little Scholars At Sunday=School. By the Author of "The History of Margaret Whyte," "The Two Lambs," &c. &c.

    Wellington.F. Houlston and Son. 1820. vi, 128, [2 catalogue]pp. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece. Original printed wrappers. 12mo. All edges yellow. First edition. Outer corners a little rounded; spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Very scarce in original wrappers. No copy of the first edition recorded in COPAC.

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  • THE HISTORY OF MARTIN AND JAMES, or the reward of Integrity. Designed for the Improvement of Children.
    THE HISTORY OF MARTIN AND JAMES, or the reward of Integrity. Designed for the Improvement of Children.

    London: Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey, No. 55 Gracechurch Street, 1806. (price Sixpence.) [2], iv, 5-93, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece and seven wood-engravings within the text. Original boards but sometime re-backed in black calf gilt with a tan label. 122 x 85 mm. Endpapers replaced when re-backed. A very good copy. First published in 1791, this title was still in print in 1834; however, it is uncommon. The preface reveals that the author is a woman. ‘This excellent little book is particularly calculated to convey a lesson of honest and upright conduct to children in humble life, but it is written in a style which renders it worthy of the perusal of those in…

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    London: Printed and sold by Darton and Harvey, No. 55 Gracechurch Street, 1806. (price Sixpence.) [2], iv, 5-93, [1 blank], [2 ad’s] pages. Engraved frontispiece and seven wood-engravings within the text. Original boards but sometime re-backed in black calf gilt with a tan label. 122 x 85 mm. Endpapers replaced when re-backed. A very good copy. First published in 1791, this title was still in print in 1834; however, it is uncommon. The preface reveals that the author is a woman. ‘This excellent little book is particularly calculated to convey a lesson of honest and upright conduct to children in humble life, but it is written in a style which renders it worthy of the perusal of those in superior stations…. [and] will … incline those who are possessed of riches or power to be the patrons and rewarders of virtuous piety.’ The Guardian of Education. (1802.)

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  • THE HISTORY OF MASTER JACKEY AND MISS HARRIOT. Dedicated to Good the Children of Europe, Asia, Africa & America. Price One Penny.

    Edinburgh: G. Ross, 1813. [20] pages, the first and last being the wrappers. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and fourteen wood-engravings within the text. Original series wrappers, with a woodcut to the lower wrapper. 98 x 60 mm. Spine repaired and wrappers worn; else a very good of a rare printing, this being the earliest known copy published by Ross; all other printing being 1814 or later.

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  • THE HISTORY OF MISS POLLY CHERRY and Golden Apple. Adorned with Cuts.
    THE HISTORY OF MISS POLLY CHERRY and Golden Apple. Adorned with Cuts.

    Birmingham: T. Brandard, No date [1815]. Price One Penny. [16] pages the first being a blank pasted to the wrappers as issued; the last two pages [one leaf] being blanks, page [16} pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with a wood-engraved pastedown frontispiece and seven small woodcuts. Original wrappers with a wood cut of ‘Puss in Boots’ to the upper panel, and two cuts to the lower panel. Tear in lower wrapper without loss; else a very good copy. Scarce.

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  • THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA., Containing a review of the Customs and manners of the Original Inhabitants; the first Settlement of the British Colonies, their Rise and Progress, from the earliest Period to the Time of their Becoming United, free and independant States. By the Rev. Mr. Cooper. Embellished with Copper-Plate Cuts. THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA. Containing the Discoveries of Columbus, the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the other Transactions of the Spaniards in the New World. By the Re. Mr. Cooper. Embellished with Copper-Plate Cuts. by [JOHNSON, Richard.]
    [JOHNSON, Richard.]
    THE HISTORY OF NORTH AMERICA., Containing a review of the Customs and manners of the Original Inhabitants; the first Settlement of the British Colonies, their Rise and Progress, from the earliest Period to the Time of their Becoming United, free and independant States. By the Rev. Mr. Cooper. Embellished with Copper-Plate Cuts. THE HISTORY OF SOUTH AMERICA. Containing the Discoveries of Columbus, the Conquest of Mexico and Peru, and the other Transactions of the Spaniards in the New World. By the Re. Mr. Cooper. Embellished with Copper-Plate Cuts.

    London: E. Newbery, 1789. North America: 184 pages. Illustrated with six full-page engravings. Recent quarter calf, gilt. Binding 14 x 9 cm. First edition. A very good copy. South America: 168 pages. Six full-page engravings. Matching binding. 14.3 x 9 cm. First edition. Stain on one page; else a very good copy. A handsome set. There would appear to be only one edition of either volume printed in the U.K., but at least twelve editions of 'North America,' and three of 'South America,' printed in the United States. See Roscoe J169 & J172.

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  • THE HISTORY OF PARISMUS, Prince of Bohemia. Containing His Battles over the Persians, his Dangers in the Isle of Rocks, his Adventures in the Desolate Island, and his Love to the beautiful Laurana. To which is added The Adventures and Travels of Parismenos, the Knight of Fame: with is Love to the fair Princess Angelica, Lady of the Golden Tower. by [FORD, Emanuel].
    [FORD, Emanuel].
    THE HISTORY OF PARISMUS, Prince of Bohemia. Containing His Battles over the Persians, his Dangers in the Isle of Rocks, his Adventures in the Desolate Island, and his Love to the beautiful Laurana. To which is added The Adventures and Travels of Parismenos, the Knight of Fame: with is Love to the fair Princess Angelica, Lady of the Golden Tower.

    Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London. No date [circa 1770]. 24 pages. Illustrated with 11 woodcuts. 12mo. Last leaf a little worn and ragged; first and last pages dust-soiled; else very good.

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  • THE HISTORY OF PRINCE FATAL AND PRINCE FORTUNE: and the story of The Three Wishes. With Three Copperplates. A New Edition. Price Sixpence. by [LE PRINCE DE BEAUMONT, Jeanne Marie.] [LE PRINCE DE BEAUMONT, Jeanne Marie.] THE HISTORY OF PRINCE FATAL AND PRINCE FORTUNE: and the story of The Three Wishes. With Three Copperplates. A New Edition. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. No date. (1804.) 27, [3 ad’s] pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. Repair to frontispiece; date cropped from title; trimmed very close in places, else a very good copy. Moon 96(1) NOURJAHAD, or The Folly of Unreasonable Wishes, an Eastern Tale. With Three Engravings. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. 1805. 36 pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. First edition. Some spotting; else very good. Moon 114(1). [JOHNSON, Richard.] THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM: A Tale For The Nursery. With Three Copperplates. A new edition. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. Circa 1804. 44 pages. Three hand-coloured engravings. Date and price cropped; trimmed very close in places; else very good. [Moon 76(1). THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB: Tales for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. 1804. 32 pages. 2 of 3 hand-coloured engravings. else very good. Moon 66, but this ‘New edition’ 1804, not located. The four titles bound together without wrappers in contemporary half red morocco gilt. Ownership inscription of Priscilla Feilden 1807. [15027] £1800. 00.
    [LE PRINCE DE BEAUMONT, Jeanne Marie.] [LE PRINCE DE BEAUMONT, Jeanne Marie.] THE HISTORY OF PRINCE FATAL AND PRINCE FORTUNE: and the story of The Three Wishes. With Three Copperplates. A New Edition. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. No date. (1804.) 27, [3 ad’s] pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. Repair to frontispiece; date cropped from title; trimmed very close in places, else a very good copy. Moon 96(1) NOURJAHAD, or The Folly of Unreasonable Wishes, an Eastern Tale. With Three Engravings. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. 1805. 36 pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. First edition. Some spotting; else very good. Moon 114(1). [JOHNSON, Richard.] THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM: A Tale For The Nursery. With Three Copperplates. A new edition. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. Circa 1804. 44 pages. Three hand-coloured engravings. Date and price cropped; trimmed very close in places; else very good. [Moon 76(1). THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB: Tales for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. 1804. 32 pages. 2 of 3 hand-coloured engravings. else very good. Moon 66, but this ‘New edition’ 1804, not located. The four titles bound together without wrappers in contemporary half red morocco gilt. Ownership inscription of Priscilla Feilden 1807. [15027] £1800. 00.
    THE HISTORY OF PRINCE FATAL AND PRINCE FORTUNE: and the story of The Three Wishes. With Three Copperplates. A New Edition. Price Sixpence.

    London: Tabart & Co, No date. (1804.). 27, [3 ad’s] pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. Repair to frontispiece; date cropped from title; trimmed very close in places, else a very good copy. Moon 96(1) NOURJAHAD, or The Folly of Unreasonable Wishes, an Eastern Tale. With Three Engravings. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. 1805. 36 pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. First edition. Some spotting; else very good. Moon 114(1). [JOHNSON, Richard.] THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM: A Tale For The Nursery. With Three Copperplates. A new edition. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. Circa 1804. 44 pages. Three hand-coloured engravings. Date and price cropped; trimmed very close in places; else very good. [Moon 76(1). THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB: Tales for the Nursery.…

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    London: Tabart & Co, No date. (1804.). 27, [3 ad’s] pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. Repair to frontispiece; date cropped from title; trimmed very close in places, else a very good copy. Moon 96(1) NOURJAHAD, or The Folly of Unreasonable Wishes, an Eastern Tale. With Three Engravings. Tabart & Co. Price Sixpence. 1805. 36 pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. First edition. Some spotting; else very good. Moon 114(1). [JOHNSON, Richard.] THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM: A Tale For The Nursery. With Three Copperplates. A new edition. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. Circa 1804. 44 pages. Three hand-coloured engravings. Date and price cropped; trimmed very close in places; else very good. [Moon 76(1). THE HISTORY OF TOM THUMB: Tales for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. Tabart and Co. Price Sixpence. 1804. 32 pages. 2 of 3 hand-coloured engravings. else very good. Moon 66, but this ‘New edition’ 1804, not located. The four titles bound together without wrappers in contemporary half red morocco gilt. Ownership inscription of Priscilla Feilden 1807.

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  • THE HISTORY OF PRINCE LEE BOO, son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands : brought to England by Captain Wilson, Commander of the Antelope, East India Packet, which was wrecked off these islands, on her passage, from China, on the 9th, of August, 1783 : with an account of Lee Boo's death : and he was buried in Rotherhithe Church-Yard, where a tomb is erected in his memory.
    THE HISTORY OF PRINCE LEE BOO, son of Abba Thulle, King of the Pelew Islands : brought to England by Captain Wilson, Commander of the Antelope, East India Packet, which was wrecked off these islands, on her passage, from China, on the 9th, of August, 1783 : with an account of Lee Boo's death : and he was buried in Rotherhithe Church-Yard, where a tomb is erected in his memory.

    London: Thomas Hughes, 1824. 108 pages. Three hand-coloured engraved plates. Recently rebound in quarter red roan over marbled boards with vellum tips. 13. 3 x 8.8 cm. Second edition thus. Small piece missing from the blank margin of one leaf; some offsetting to title; else a very good copy. First published by E. Newbery in 1794.

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  • THE HISTORY OF PUSS IN BOOTS.
    THE HISTORY OF PUSS IN BOOTS.

    Bristol: Printed and Sold by Philip Rose, Broadmead, 1828. [Price One Penny]. [16] pages, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with four woodcuts. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel and a booklist to the lower. 104 x 67 mm. Worn at corners and the upper wrapper is chipped along the fore-edges; else a very good copy of a scarce provincial printing.

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  • The History of PUSS IN BOOTS. With a coloured engraving. Price Two-pence.
    The History of PUSS IN BOOTS. With a coloured engraving. Price Two-pence.

    Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original green wrappers. Spine expertly restored; else fine.

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  • THE HISTORY OF REYNARD the Fox.
    THE HISTORY OF REYNARD the Fox.

    Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London, No date [circa 1780/90]. 24 pages. Woodcut to title, and four others woodcuts within the text. 12mo. Spine repaired with an overlay of paper; the chapbook sewn into modern wrappers with a typed title label to the upper panel. Rare. The British Library has what looks to be the same chapbook, but with, ‘Bow-lane’ added to the address, which they date, circa 1750, so it’s possible that the above copy is a little earlier than 1780.

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  • THE HISTORY OF ROBIN HOOD: A Tale for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. Price Sixpence.
    THE HISTORY OF ROBIN HOOD: A Tale for the Nursery. With Three Copperplates. Price Sixpence.

    London: Tabart and Co, 1804. 40 pages. Illustrated with three hand-coloured full-page plates. Bound in later quarter red untitled sheep, over marbled boards with vellum tips to the corners and gilt banding to the spine. 12.5 x 8 cm. First edition. Trimmed close at bottom edge, just affecting the date on the title; else a very good copy. Moon 65(1). The plates are engraved after designs by W. M. Craig.

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  • THE HISTORY OF ROBIN HOOD. With Three Copperplates.

    London: Tabart and Co, 1804. Price Sixpence. 40 pages. 3 hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. 124 x 83 mm. First edition. Spine worn at head & heel with some loss of paper; small mark on one plate; printer name partly cropped at foot of page 3; two ownership names of verso of wrapper; else a very good copy of a rare book. Moon 65(1)

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  • THE HISTORY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Miss Mary Merryheart’s Series. by [DEFOE, Daniel.]
    [DEFOE, Daniel.]
    THE HISTORY OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Miss Mary Merryheart’s Series.

    London: Dean & Son, 1857. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Two leaves bears text; the remaining six, text and a large hand-coloured engraving. Original pictorial wrappers. 245 x 170 mm. Spine and oversewn by a parent; fore-edges worn and with the occasional short tear; else very good copy of a scarce title.

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  • THE HISTORY OF SAM, the Sportsman, and his gun, also, of His Wife Joan. Embellished with wood-cuts.
    THE HISTORY OF SAM, the Sportsman, and his gun, also, of His Wife Joan. Embellished with wood-cuts.

    York: James Kendrew, Printer, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with eleven wood-engravings. Original yellow printed wrappers. 99 x 67 mm. The text extends to the lower wrapper. A very good copy.

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  • THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON, A Work Intended for the Use of Children. The Third edition Corrected. by DAY, Thomas.
    DAY, Thomas.
    THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON, A Work Intended for the Use of Children. The Third edition Corrected.

    London: John Stockdale, 1786. Three Volumes, each with an engraved frontispiece. Volume I: x, 281, [5 ad’s] pages. Volume II: [ii], 306, [4 ad’s] pages. Volume III: [ii],308, [4 ad’s] pages. The first volume of Sandford and Merton was published in 1783; the second in 1786, and the third in 1789. In this set, volume I is a third edition, volumes II & III are first editions. Contemporary sheep sometime re-backed. Volumes I & II bear the ownership names of Miss F. Boote. Volume I has the later ownership name of Alan Lubbock on the end-paper, and that of Elize Hodges on the blank verso of the title. There is a narrow area of water-staining to the fore-edges of…

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    London: John Stockdale, 1786. Three Volumes, each with an engraved frontispiece. Volume I: x, 281, [5 ad’s] pages. Volume II: [ii], 306, [4 ad’s] pages. Volume III: [ii],308, [4 ad’s] pages. The first volume of Sandford and Merton was published in 1783; the second in 1786, and the third in 1789. In this set, volume I is a third edition, volumes II & III are first editions. Contemporary sheep sometime re-backed. Volumes I & II bear the ownership names of Miss F. Boote. Volume I has the later ownership name of Alan Lubbock on the end-paper, and that of Elize Hodges on the blank verso of the title. There is a narrow area of water-staining to the fore-edges of the frontispiece to Volume III; the frontispiece to volume I has three short tears [3mm] to the fore-edge of the frontispiece. Otherwise, this is a very good early set of one of the most influential children’s books of the period.

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  • THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON. Abridged from the original. Embellished with elegant plates. by [DAY, Thomas.]
    [DAY, Thomas.]
    THE HISTORY OF SANDFORD AND MERTON. Abridged from the original. Embellished with elegant plates.

    London: J. Wallis, No. 16, Ludgate-Street, No date [1790]. [Price Two Shillings.] [vi], 173 pages. Engraved frontispiece and five other full-page engraved plates, each date 1790. Contemporary calf sometime nicely re-backed and the corners repaired. First edition of this abridgement. Crossed through ownership name on front endpaper, dated 1796; the occasional mark; else a very good copy. The third and final volume of the first edition of the work was published in 1789, so this abridgement by Richard Johnson, was promptly into print.

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