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THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER By A. A. Milne With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928. Original pink cloth gilt. Octavo. First edition. Free endpaper, front and back, a little browned; else an excellent copy with no inscriptions etc.
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THE HOUSE AT POOH CORNER By A. A. Milne With Decorations by Ernest H. Shepard.
London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1928. Original pink cloth gilt; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Free endpaper, front and back, a little browned; inscription on half-title; else a very good, clean copy.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
London: Printed and Published at E. Billing’s Juvenile Publications Warehouse, 186 Bermondsey Street. No date [circa 1840]. [8] pages. Illustrated with 12 wood-engravings/. Original printed blue wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 120 x 93 mm. A fine copy. Loosely laid in is a bookplate for the Crewe Hall Library. ‘Juvenile books. Box 18.’
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
Derby: Printed and sold by G. Thorpe, Friar-Gate, No date [circa 1830]. 24 pages, the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved vignette on title, and fourteen woodcuts within the text. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 103 x 68 mm. A fine copy. Rare. No copy located in Library Hub.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
London: J. L. Marks, No date,[circa 1830]. Illustrated with eight hand-coloured woodcuts. Original yellow printed wrappers. 17.5 x 10.7 cm’s. Repaired tear to page[4]; spine splitting; slight browning throughout; else a very good copy of a scarce title. Not in Osborne, Oppenheimer, or Gumuchian.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.
York: R. Burdekin. Price One Halfpenny, No date [circa 1820’s]. 16pp. including self-wrappers. Illustrated with fourteen woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Richard Burdekin’s chapbooks are rarely found. We have been able to trace only two copies of this title, one in the Bodleian Library and another at Brown University in the United States.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; An Entertaining Story for Children. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [ circa 1830]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and eleven small woodcuts. Original printed wrappers, with a cut to upper, and two cuts to lower panel. Wrapper dimensions: 11.3 x 7.5 cm. Blank corner torn from one leaf when opened; small hole in upper wrapper; else a very nice copy.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Aunt Mavor’s Toy Books. Price Sixpence; or Mounted on linen, On Shilling.
London: George Routledge & Sons, No date [1870’s]. 8 leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with 11 had-coloured engravings. Original pictorial wrappers. 232 x 178 mm. Spine expertly restored. A very good copy.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Marks’s Edition.
London: J. L. Marks, No date. [Circa 1840.]. Ff[8]. Each leaf printed on one side only, and bearing a finely hand-coloured engraving with text beneath. Original pastedown wrappers. A few marks; ownership name on first page; else a very good copy.
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. – One Halfpenny.
Alnwick: W. Davison, No date [circa 1825]. 16 pages, including wrappers. Illustrated with ten woodcuts, and a cut to both upper and lower wrapper. 77 x 57 mm. Spine expertly restored; else an excellent copy. Rare. No copy located
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; To which is added, Some Account of Jack Jingle, Showing by what Means he acquired his Learning and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself House. Adorned with cuts.
York: J. kendrew, No date [circa 1820’s]. [24 pages including the blank pastedowns to the wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, and 11 woodcuts within the text. Original grey wrappers with woodcuts to both panels. 84 x 64 mm. A fine copy. Davis 34
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THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT; To which is prefixed the History of Jack Jingle; Shewing by what means he acquired his Learning, and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself a House.
Edinburgh: G. Ross, No date [circa 1815]. Price One Penny. 20 pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece to the verso of the front wrapper, and 12 woodcuts within the text; turnover cut to the lower wrapper of a Merry Cobler and a Schoolmaster. 90 x 60 mm. Repaired at spine; worn at corners and trimmed with some loss of running title; lightly browned throughout. However, this is an acceptable copy of a chapbook. Library Hub lists British Library copy only.
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THE HUMOUROUS STORY OF MRS. GILPIN’S RETURN FROM EDMONTON, being the sequel to Johnny Gilpin, of Cheapside.
London: John Harris, St. Paul’s Church-Yard, and John Wallis, Sen. 13, Warwick-Square, 1808. 15, [1] pages. Illustrated with six hand-coloured engravings. Lacks original wrappers; bound in quarter red sheep gilt over marbled boards, vellum tips to the corners. 124 x 106 mm. First edition. Inscription on blank recto of frontispiece; some light marking; else a very good copy of a scarce title. See Moon 478.
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight Fits. By Lewis Carroll. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. xi, [3], 83], [2], [1 ad’] pages. Original pictorial cloth. All edges gilt. Octavo. First edition. Binding cocked; pages 2 & 3 stained; binding rather dulled.
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK An Agony in Eight fits. By Lewis Carroll. With Nine Illustrations By Henry Holiday.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. First Edition. Tiny hole in spine; else an unusually fine, fresh copy, complete with the loosely inserted 'Easter Greeting' in its rare first state. On February 5th 1876 Dodgson noted in his Diary: "In the afternoon I wrote a large piece of MS. For An Easter Letter which I am again thinking of printing to insert in copies of my Easter book…." And on March 22cnd: 2.30a.m. I have been sitting up, finishing the MS. Of a little 'Easter Letter' to put into copies of 'The Snark.' Though all eight printings of an 'Easter Greeting' are scarce, the first is notoriously so.
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK an Agony in Eight fits. By Lewis Carroll. With nine illustrations by Henry Holiday.
London: Macmillan and Co, 1876. Original red pictorial cloth gilt. All edges gilt.. Octavo. First edition.Bookplate; binding little rubbed and worn; else a very good copy of this scarce issue. ‘It is doubtful whether any variant coloured bindings were for sale… (they) seem to have been bound specially for Dodgson, who wrote to Macmillan on 21 Mar. 1876 ordering: ‘100 in red and gold, 20 in dark blue and gold, 20 in white vellum and gold…’’ Lewis Carroll Handbook.
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THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK. Illustrated by Byron Sewell with respectful apologies to H. Holiday.
London: Catalpa Press, 1974. Number five of a limited edition of 250 copies, numbered and signed by Sewell. Contains a sixteen feet long panorama and nine other illustrations in black & white, including two folding, and one with a red acetate overlay to make the ‘baker’ in the illustration vanish. A pocket at the rear contains a set of metamorphic cards, each printed with sections of the crew members’ faces. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.
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THE ILLUSTRATED A B C or the Child’s First Step to Learning.
Sudbury: Printed and Published by H. M. Ives, 3 & 4 King Street, No date [circa 1850/60]. Price One Penny. [12] pages. Illustrated with twenty-two woodcuts. Original printed wrappers with a woodcut to the upper panel. 158 x 105 mm. A very good copy of a scarce provincial printing. Though claiming to an illustrated Alphabet, this toy book is really a basic primer.
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THE ILLUSTRATED BOOK OF NURSERY RHYMES AND SONGS. With Music. Edited by T. L. Hately. Illustrations by Keely Halswelle.
London: T. Nelson and Sons, No date [1865]. 112 pages. Illustrated throughout. Contemporary half sheep gilt over marbled boards. 208 x 165 mm. First edition. Some quite heavy foxing at start and end and occasionally throughout; binding a little rubbed, and upper board a little bowed; else a very good copy of a scarce title.
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The Illustrious and Renowned HISTORY OF THE SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. In Three Parts. Containing their Honourable Births, Victories, and Noble Achievements by Sea and Land, in divers strange Countries: Their Combats with giants, Monsters, &c. Wonderful Adventures, Fortunes and Misfortunes, in Desarts, Wildernesses, and Inchanted Castles: Their Conquests of Empires and Kingdoms, relieving distressed Ladies, with their faithful Love to them: The Honour they won in Tilts and Tournaments, and Success against the Enemies of Christendom. Also, with Heroic Adventures of St, George's Three Sons. And the Manner of their Untimely Deaths: Also how they came to be stiled Saints, and Champions of Christendom. The Tenth Edition.
London: L. Hawes, and Comp, 1775. 156 pages. Recto of frontis is a book-list; wood-engraved frontispiece, and 39 wood-engravings within the text, of which many are repeats. Original hessian-covered boards. 12mo. Small piece list from fore-edge of title with slight loss of final letters there and on the verso; head and heel of spine worn; ownership details on endpaper; else very good.
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