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THE LOBSTER’S VOYAGE TO THE BRAZILS. Illustrated with elegant and appropriate engravings.
London: J. Harris., Successor to E. Newbery, at the Original Juvenile Library, the Corner of St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and B. Crosby and Co. Stationers-Court, 1808. 16 pages; 8 full-page engravings after William Mulready. Original blue printed wrappers. The entire book bound in full morocco gilt. 128 x 107 mm. First edition. Touch of wear to head of leather spine; else a fine, clean copy. Moon 504.
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THE LONDON VOCABULARY ENGLISH AND LATIN; Put into a New Method, proper to acquaint the Learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of Schools. The fourteenth edition corrected, with additions.
London: J. F. and C. Rivington, T. Longman, B. Law, and S. Bladon, 1785. [i-iii], iv-viii[1], 2-123, [1publisher's advertisement] pages. Illustrated with wood-engraved vignette to title and twenty-five other cuts throughout. Slightly later full tree calf, recently re-backed; red label, gilt to spine; raised bands. 12mo. Inscription to endpaper; else a very good, clean copy. See Gumuchian 5214-17; Osborne page 123; see Oppenheimer 1098-1101. Essentially a re-working of Orbis Pictus by Comenius, Greenwood’s London Vocabulary was probably first published in the first decade of the eighteenth century.
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The London Vocabulary, English and Latin: Put into a New Method, proper to acquaint the learner with Things as well as pure Latin Words. Adorned with twenty-six Pictures. For the Use of Schools. The Twenty-first edition. By James Greenwood, author of the English Grammar, and late Sur-Master of St. Paul’s School.
London: T. Longman, B. Law, F. & C. Rivington, R. Baldwin, G. & T. Wilkie, and J. Walker, 1797. 123, [1 ad’] pages. Bound in twentieth century full vellum, with black titling to the spine. Name on title; light soiling to title; else a very good copy.
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THE LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE MIND; or, Intellectual Mirror. Being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories, and interesting tales, chiefly translated from the much admired Work, L’ AMI DES EFANS. A New Edition, with seventy-four, designed and engraved on wood by Bewick.
London: E. Newbery, 1794. [viii], 271 pages. |Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by John Bewick. Contemporary sheep, sometime re-backed, corners of boards repaired, and new endpapers fitted. 12mo in sixes. A very good copy. This title was first published in 1787, but with only a frontispiece; this edition with cuts by John Bewick was first published in 1792. See Roscoe J25(4).
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THE LOOKING-GLASS FOR THE MIND; or, Intellectual Mirror: being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories & interesting tales: chiefly translated from L'ami Des Enfans. With seventy-four cuts, designed and engraved on wood, by I. Bewick. The Twelfth edition.
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THE LORD OF THE RUSHIE RIVER. Story and Pictures by Cicely Mary Barker.
London and Glasgow: Blackie and Son limited, No date. 48 pages. Illustrated with12 colour plates and numerous black and white line drawings. Original decorative paper-covered boards, with mounted full-colour pictorial pastedown. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Dust-wrapper has had the price cut out; inscription on flap of dust-wrapper; else a fine copy.
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THE LOST PRINCESS A Fairy Tale. With Illustrations by Mabel Lucie Attwell.
London: S. W. Partridge, 1924. 159 pages. Illustrated with 6 tipped-in colour plates and black & white vignettes to the some of the borders. Original decorative blue cloth with red lettering. Quarto. First edition. One of the black & white vignettes has been overdrawn very neatly in plain pencil; one corner is a little bumped; neat ownership inscription on front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE LUCKY TUB. Dean’s 6d Patent Rag Book Series 1. Number 96.
London: Dean’s Rag Book Co., Ltd, No date [1909-1914]. 12 pages. Illustrated in colour by Evelyn Gladys Hall. Oblong: 118 x 158 mm. A fine copy from the Dean archive. See Cope, Page 75. [15125]
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THE LYRE.
London: Printed and Sold by J. Catnach, No date [circa 1835]. 8 pages. Wood-engraved vignette on cover/title, and six small woodcuts within the text. Disbound from a volume of similar chapbooks, and now loose; else a very good copy of a chapbook of popular songs and ballads.
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THE LYRE: A Collection of New Songs.
London: J. Catnach, No date [circa 1835]. [8] pages, plus wrappers. Wood-engraved vignette on the upper of the yellow wrappers, and with two woodcuts within the text. Unstitched as issued. Approximately 12.5 x 9 cm's. A very good copy of a chapbook of popular songs and ballads.
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THE MADGE WILLIAMS CHILDREN'S ANNUAL.
London.Dean & Son, Ltd. No date (circa 1936). Unpaged, but 90pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and ten other full-page plates, plus numerous line drawings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Quarto. Little rubbed at edges, corners, and spine - the head and heel just a little worn; prize bookplate; light spotting on endpapers dating the book to 1936; else a very good copy indeed.
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THE MAGIC CIRCLE. Illustrated by C. E. Brock.
London: Blackie & Son Limited, No date [prize plate for 1937]. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. Octavo. Gilt heraldic prize stamp to upper board; else a very good copy in a price-clipped dust-wrapper that is a little worn and torn at the top edge.
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THE MAGIC EGG A story for children by Dorothy Black. Illustrated by Charles Folkard.
London: A. & C. Black, Limited, 1922. 111 pages. Coloured frontispiece and black & white illustrations throughout. Original pictorial cloth; original pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. First edition. Dust-wrapper is rather worn and torn, with loss to the rear panel and to the base of the spine extending into the front panel, but largely complete. Some light spotting; else a very good copy, rarely found in dust-wrapper.
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THE MAGIC ROUNDABOT. B.B.C. T.V. A present for Florence. A Dean's baby-safe rag book. Drawn by Josephine Wilkinson.
London.Dean & Son. No Date. [C. 1968]. A rag book comprising four folded leaves with colour illustrations. The second and third leaves are sadly incomplete. Else, as new with very bright colours.Date from copyright on back of book.
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THE MAGIC ROUNDABOT. B.B.C. T.V. Dougal and the Thing. A Dean's baby-safe rag book. Drawn by Josephine Wilkinson.
London.Dean & Son. No Date [C. 1968]. A rag book comprising four folded leaves with colour illustrations. The second and third leaves are incomplete. As new with very bright colours.Date from copyright on back of book.
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THE MAGPIE; or, Tell Tale. With fine Engravings. THE FARM HOUSE; or, Pretty Stories of Young Towler and Mary Goodwoman. With fine Prints.
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THE MARLBOROUGH STRUWWELPETER. Illustrated by the Author.
Printed and published at the “Times” Office, Marlborough, No date. (1908.). Illustrated throughout in colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial boards. Quarto. First edition. An edition of only 450 copies. Some water-staining to boards and some wrinkling to pages; strained and cracked at inner joints; spine splitting at heel; else a very good copy of this scarce Struwwelpeter imitation. See Baumgartner Vol. 1 Page 51. Loosely laid-in is Programme of the '100th Penny Reading to be given in the Upper School of Marlborough College on Saturday November 7th 1908.' Item 6 is a 'Reading' by A.de C. Williams. The title of the reading, 'The Monkey's Law,' has been added in pencil, and the observation that it was, 'a badly-read ghost-story, which nobody appreciated.' The programme is badly water-stained.
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THE MARLBOROUGH STRUWWELPETER. Illustrated by the Author.
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THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS or Puss in Boots Told anew in verse by Francis Davis.
Edinburgh: W. P. Nimmo, No date [circa 1870]. The Royal Illuminated Legends Gorgeously Illuminated, after the Mediaeval manner, in Colours and Gold, by Marcus Ward, Illuminator to the Queen. [8] leaves, printed on one side only, the first and last pasted to the wrappers as issued, of which two bear music composed by Hobson Carroll, two bear text, and four bear full-colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. Oblong: 188 x 278 mm. Remains of juvenile pencil scribble to first page of music; spine expertly repaired; else a very good copy.
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THE MARY FRANCES STORY BOOK or Adventures among the Story People. Illustrated by John Edwin Prittie.
London. George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1923. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. Octavo. 286, [4 ad's] pages. Illustrated with four full-page, full-colour plates, and with many full-page plates in black & white & red. Original blue cloth, gilt with a mounted full-colour pastedown to the upper board. Octavo. First U. K. edition. Few tiny spots on endpapers; else a very good, clean copy.
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