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The History of VALENTINE AND ORSON.
Devonport: Printed and Published by S. & J. Keys, No date [ circa 1850s/60s]. 12 pages. Illustrated with two woodcuts. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 179 x 106 mm. A very good copy of a scarce provincial printing.
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THE HISTORY Of VALENTINE AND ORSON.
Devonport: Printed by Samuel & John Keys, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Illustrated with two engravings. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the front panel. 178 x 105 mm. A very good copy.
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THE HISTORY OF VALENTINE AND ORSON.
Printed for the Company of Walking Stationers, No date [circa 1790]. Chapbook. 16 pages. Woodcut on cover/title. 15.7x9 cm. Disbound from a multiple volume at some time, and spine expertly repaired and re-stitched; else a fine copy.
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The History of VALENTINE AND ORSON. With a Coloured Engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson. Price Two-pence, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original green wrappers. 13.7 x 9.1 cm. Spine expertly restored; else fine.
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THE HISTORY OF WAT TYLER, AND JACK STRAW.
Printed and Sold in Aldermary Church-Yard, London. No date [circa 17 70/80]. 24 pages. Illustrated with 5 woodcuts. 12mo. One leaf trimmed close to text, but without loss; spine repaired; else very good.
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THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.
London: Ryle and Co, No date [circa 1845]. 8 pages. Hand-coloured engraved title, and seven plain woodcuts within the text. Original pictorial printed wrappers. Some creasing to edges and the odd small chip and marginal tear; else a very good copy.
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THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.
London: W. S. Fortey, 2 & 3 Monmouth Court, Bloomsbury, No date [circa 1840]. [8] pages. Illustrated with four woodcuts. Original printed wrapper s with a woodcut to the upper panel. 12.5 x 9.7 cm. Stitched into wrappers but unopened at top edges. A very good copy.
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The History of WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.
Devonport: S. & J. keys, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with seven woodcuts, including one on the upper wrapper. The lower bears a small woodcut not relevant to the story. 10.8 x 6.3 cm. Little worn at edges of wrappers, else a very good copy of a scarce printing. Not in Necker. The story commences on the upper wrapper, and ends on the lower.
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The History of WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT; How from a poor Country Boy, destitute of Parents or Relations, he attained great riches, and was promoted to the high and honorable dignity of Lord Mayor of London.
York: J(ames) JKendrew, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece and woodcuts throughout. Original printed wrappers. 9.7 x 6.5 cm. A fine copy of a charming chapbook.
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THE HISTORY OF WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT; How from a poor Country Boy, destitute of Parents or Relations, he attained great riches, and was promoted to the high and honourable dignity of Lord Mayor of London.
York: J. Kendrew, Colliergate, No date [circa 1830]. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers as issued. Paste-down wood-engraved frontispiece and nine woodcuts within the text and one tailpiece. Original printed buff wrappers. 100 x 65 mm. A very good copy. .
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THE HOLE AND CORNER BOOK. Verses by B. Parker. Illustrated by N. Parker.
London: W. & R. Chambers, Limited, No date [1910]. Unpaged. Illustrated with 12 full-page coloured plates. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Oblong: 235 x 328 mm. First edition. An excellent, clean copy.
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THE HOLE IN THE WALL By May Byron. Illustrated by Ernest Aris.
London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, No date [inscribed 1917]. [36] pages. Illustrated with 6 full-page colour plates and black & white drawings within the text. Original paper-covered boards with a mounted pastedown pictorial colour title to the upper panel. 198 x 168 mm. Head of spine just pulled a little; ownership name in ownership box; else very good.
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THE HOLIDAY ABC. Mounted on linen – untearable.
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [circa 1905]. [16] pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated in colour throughout. Original pictorial wrappers. 323 x 255 mm. Spine a little worn; else a very good copy of a delightful alphabet.
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The Home Treasury. BEAUTY AND THE BEAST. An entirely new edition. With new pictures by an eminent artist. Edited by Felix Summerly.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1843. 35,[1] pages. Illustrated with 4 full-page plates by J. C. Horsley. Original decorative paper-covered boards. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. All edges gilt. First edition thus. Ownership name crossed through neatly on endpaper; binding a little worn, and spine cracked; else a very good copy of a very scarce title in this series. McLean page 48.
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The Home Treasury. LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. An entirely new edition. With new pictures by an eminent artist. Edited by Felix Summerly.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1843. 23,[1] pages. Illustrated with 4 hand-coloured full-page plates by T. Webster. Original decorative paper-covered boards. 16.5 x 12.5 cm. All edges gilt. First edition thus. Head of spine chipped, and some splitting; else a very good copy of a very scarce title in this series. McLean page 48. In this version the editor has supplied a choice of two endings, 'the traditional ending… but it is a grievous one, which most children dislike – And as I have heard a version related, in which poetical justice is done to the wolf, I insert it for those who prefer it..'
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The Home Treasury. SIR HORNBOOK; or, Childe Launcelot’s Expedition. A Grammatico-Allegorical Ballad. New Edition.
London: Joseph Cundall, 1843. 28 pages, plus 8 finely hand-coloured plates by H. Corbould. Contemporary half roan over marbled boards. Spine expertly repaired; else a near fine copy of a work first published in 1813. However, this is the first edition of the work to be issued by Cundall in his Home Treasury Series.
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The Home Treasury. THE SISTERS AND GOLDEN LOCKS. New Faery Tales. Edited by F.S. [Felix Summerly (Henry Cole)].
30 pages. Illustrated with 3 full-page plates. Original decorative stiff paper covers. 16.3 x 12.3 Spine weak and with some loss of paper; else very good. Very scare. This particular title not located in McClean.
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THE HONEST FARMER and his Good Landlord. 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 paste-down frontispiece and ten small woodcuts within the text. Original wrappers with a wood-engraving to the upper panel. 115 x 73 mm. Bookplate of Crewe Hall Library tipped in between frontispiece and title; else a fine copy. Scarce. The claim of fourteen engravings is incorrect!
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THE HONOURS OF THE TABLE, or, Rules for Behaviour during Meals; with the whole Art of Carving, illustrated by a variety of cuts. Together with Directions for going to Market, and the Method of distinguishing good Provisions from bad; to which is added A Number of Hints or concise Lessons for the Improvement of Youth, on all occasions in Life. By the Author of Principles of Politeness, &c. For the use of young people.
London: Printed for the Author, at the Literary=Press, 1788. 120, 8 [list of Books] pages. Illustrated with 26 wood-engravings by John Bewick. Original marbled boards, recently re-backed in untitled sheep to match original. 12mo. First edition. Some occasional light spotting; ownership names on front endpaper; else a very good copy of the scarce first edition. Tattersfield JB34. This book was the first and most successful product of the collaboration between Bewick and Trusler. It was reprinted in 1791, 1803, and again in two undated editions. A pirated edition was published in Dublin in 1791.
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THE HOTSPUR BOOK FOR BOYS.
London: D. C. Thomson & Co., Ltd, No date [inscribed 1948]. 125 pages. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and many black & white illustrations throughout. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Cover shows a robot being lifted by a tank-like vehicle. 4to. 'Belongs to' box completed; light rubbing to extremities; else a very good copy.
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