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The Life and Death of JENNY WREN Being a very small book, at a very small charge, to learn them to read, before they grow large.
London: J. E. Evans, No date [circa 1820]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts. Expert repair to spine; else in excellent condition. Rare. WorldCat lists no editions with this precise imprint, though they do list a copy with the imprint of J. Evans and Son.
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF JENNY WREN, For the use of Young Ladies and Gentlemen. Being a very small book at very small charge, to learn them to read B[efore they grow large].
London: T. Evans, 79, Long Lane, London, No date [circa1800]. 16 pages. Illustrated with a woodcut on the title, and 15 other small cuts. 85 x 55 mm. Re-sewn and spine repaired; rubbed and with some loss of words on title; else very good copy of a rare chapbook. No copy with this imprint located on Worldcat. ESTC records only an edition issued by G. Thomson, 42 Long Lane, circa 1800.
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THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ST. GEORGE, Champion of England.
Printed and Sold in London, No date [circa 1790]. Chapbook. 24 pages. Woodcut on cover/title, and ten woodcuts within the text. 15.7 x 9 cm. Disbound from a multiple volume, and spine expertly repaired and re-stitched; last page a little soiled; else very good.
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THE LIFE AND EXPLOITS OF DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA: with the humorous conceits of his facetious squire, Sancho Panca. Abridged. New edition.
London: A. K. Newman and Co, 1839. 256 pages. With an engraved frontispiece, and 11 engraved plates. Later green buckram, lettered in gilt. 8vo. Some light soiling to upper board. Front inner hinge cracked; ownership inscription to recto of frontispiece; light offsetting to title-page; else a very good copy of a rare, abridged edition intended for a juvenile readership. COPAC records editions printed by Newman in 1837 and 1840, locating only a single copy in each instance (both of which are held by the BL). OCLC adds a single copy of this 1839 edition, at TAMU
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THE LIFE AND HISTORY OF LITTLE JACK, who was suckled by a goat. With eight coloured engravings. A new edition, corrected, and adapted for juvenile readers. By a Lady.
London: Dean and Munday, No date [circa 1830]. 36 pages. Small vignette of a goat on title; folding frontispiece with seven hand-coloured engravings. Original printed wrappers. 142 x 93 mm. A very good copy.
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THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner.
London: John Arliss, 1818. Price 2s. 6d. 177 pages. Wood engraved frontispiece and five other full-page wood-engravings and a tailpiece. Original quarter green roan gilt. 143 x 90 mm. Gift inscription on title; binding rubbed and worn; some gathers a little proud; and, generally, a little tired. But a good copy of a scarce imprint, with no copies located on Library Hub.
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THE LIFE AND MOST SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the great river Oroonoque. With an Account of his deliverance thence, and his after surprising adventures. A New edition, complete in one volume; with plates, descriptive of the subject.
London: Published and sold by the booksellers; and by T. Wilson and Son, Printers, High Ousegate, York, 1810. 264 pages. Engraved frontispiece, and 3 other full-page engraved plates. Original full sheep. 12mo. Binding worn with loss of leather from the spine; blank corner lost from one plate, and one leaf has a blank corner missing; some occasional marking and staining; name and pencil writing on endpapers. A good plus copy.
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THE LIFE AND PERAMBULATION OF A MOUSE. By M.P. In two volumes.
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THE LIFE AND PERAMBULATION OF A MOUSE. In Two Volumes.
London: Printed & Sold by John Marshall, No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard in Bow Lane & No. 17, Queen Street, Cheapside. (Price Sixpence in Gilt Paper.) No date [circa 1790]. Vol’ I: 91[92] pages. Vol’ II: 84 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and cuts throughout the text in each volume. Two volumes bound as one in untitled quarter calf gilt over marbled paper-covered boards. Trimmed a close to the running title in places with some loss; title-pages a little marked; small loss from two blank margins, just affecting text; else a very good set. Rare. ESTC notes two issues of this edition: one with catchword on page 15 of volume one being ‘the’; and the other, as in this copy, the catchword being, ‘colours.’ The first edition of volume I, published as being complete in itself, was first issued in 1783.
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THE LIFE AND SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE. Embellished with eight elegant Engravings. New edition. Price Sixpence.
Glasgow: J. Lumsden & Son, No date [circa 1818]. 51 pages. Original wrappers with mounted printed label. 13.2 x 9.6 cm. Spine repaired; else a very good copy. Roscoe and Brimmell 115. A particularly finely produced chapbook with excellent engravings.
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THE LIFE OF A BOLD AB ON HIS SHIP IN THE ROLLING C. Second edition. Verses by T. A. Polson and Others.
London: Dean & Son, No date. [1902.]. [32] pages including covers. 345 x 215mm. Edges a little frayed and curled; else a very good copy of this the first rag book to be issued from the publishing house of Dean & Son. Very scarce. This is the first of many rag book titles that Dean would publish throughout the twentieth century. See Cope pages 12 & 60. The first edition of 5000 copies was issued in July 1902, the second in September, and a third in December.
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THE LIFE OF A HORSE, A pretty Book, of Amusement and Instruction, with many coloured plates.
London: Edward Lacey, 76, St. Paul’s Church-yard…, No date [circa1835]. Price sixpence. 12 leaves, each printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued. Illustrated with twelve half-page engravings with verse beneath. Original printed wrappers with a vignette on the upper panel. 170 x 107 mm. spine and the first page repaired; a little worn generally, but still very good. This title would appear to be scarce, with no copies located on Library Hub and Worldcat.
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THE LIFE OF JACK SPRAT.
Derby: T (homas) Richardson, No date [circa 1830]. 12 pages., including wrappers. Illustrated with six small woodcuts, including a cut to lower wrap, where the text continues, and an unrelated cut to the upper cover. Spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy. Not located in COPAC.
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THE LIFE OF JACK SPRAT, his Wife and his Cat.
York: C. Croshaw, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Woodcut to upper cover/title, and 15 other small woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired. A very good copy. We have failed to locate another copy of this book, though the Kendrew version, also published in York, is common.
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THE LIFE OF JACK SPRAT, his Wife and his Cat.
York: C. Croshaw, No date [circa 1830]. 16pp. Self-wrappers. Woodcut to upper cover/title, and 15 other small woodcuts. Spine expertly repaired. A very good copy. We failed to locate another copy of this book, though the Kendrew version, also published in York, is common.
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THE LIFE OF JACK SPRAT. His Wife and his Cat
London: J. E. Evans, No date [circa 1820]. 16 pages, including self-wrappers. Illustrated with 16 woodcuts. Expert repair to spine; else in excellent condition. Rare. WorldCat lists no editions with this precise imprint, though they do list a copy with the imprint of J. Evans, circa 1810, which is held by the British Library.
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THE LION AND THE UNICORN.
London & Otley: William Walker & Sons, No date [circa 1890]. 8 leaves, including wrappers, all printed on one side only, with coloured woodblock illustrations with text beneath. Ad's to lower wrapper. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Spine expertly repaired; blank corner lost from lower wrapper; else very good.
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THE LION THAT FLEW. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1974. Hardcover. Glazed Pictorial boards; no dust-wrapper as issued. First edition. Two faint marks on front endpaper from where the book was once covered in brown paper.
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THE LION'S MASQUERADE. A Sequel to the Peacock at Home. Written By A Lady. Illustrated with elegant engravings.
London: J. Harris.... B. Tabart, 1808. 16 pages. 6 engraved plates after William Mulready. Original pictorial wrappers. 125 x 115 mm. Lacks rear endpaper; little worn and browned; wrappers rubbed; small drawing pin hole through the front cover to the rear, but passing through the upper blank margins; else a very good copy. Moon 214(2).
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THE LITERARY BOX: Containing the contributions of the Evelyn family, consisting of instructing and amusing tales, in prose and verse, suited to all ages. By the Author of ‘The Welcome Visitor.’
London: John Harris, 1824. [2], 90, [2 booklist]pp. Illustrated with six engraved plates each bearing two engravings. Original quarter red roan, gilt over buff boards. 12mo. First edition. Two of the plates have been coloured (quite nicely) by a former owner; boards rubbed and marked and worn at corners; endpapers replaced; else a very good copy. Moon, 488(1).
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