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THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE: or, select portions of scripture familiarly explained, and embellished with two hundred and twenty neat and appropriate engravings. Intended as a pleasing inducement to children, to read the Holy Bible.
London: Dean & Munday, No date [circa 1845]. Price One Shilling. 108 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 148 x 98 mm. Ownership inscription on endpaper; boards a little rubbed; else a very good copy.
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THE NEW HIEROGLYPHICAL BIBLE: or, Select Portions of Scripture Familiarly Explained, and embellished with two hundred and twenty neat and appropriate engravings: intended as pleasing inducement to children, to read the Holy Bible.
London: Dean & Son, No date [circa 1840s]. 72 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original pictorial blue wrappers. Old crease-mark in corner of front wrapper/frontispiece; slight wear to foot of spine else a near fine copy.
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THE NEW HISTORY OF VALENTINE AND ORSON, Abstracted from the French, and the best English Originals. With a new set of Figures more Expressive of the Story, and better Adapted to the Entertainment of the Reader, than any yet Extant.
London: Tho. Norris, at the Looking-glass on London-bridge, 1724. 162, plus [6 ‘contents’] pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece and many cuts within the text. Contemporary plain sheep, sometime re-backed in calf. Bookplate; some browning; but a very good copy.
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THE NEW NOAH'S ARK.
London: John Lane. The Bodley Head, 1899. Illustrated in colour by Charles Robinson, but not acknowledged. 64 pages. Original pictorial embossed cloth by Charles Robinson. Quarto. First edition. Re-backed with the original spine laid down; a few amrks; else very good. Very scarce.
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THE NEW PICTORIAL BIBLE.
Glasgow: Published by F. Orr and Sons, No date [circa 1850]. 24 pages. Woodcut to title/wrapper, and 46 other wood-engravings. 160 x 96 mm. Front wrapper creased at lower outer corner; small paper flaw in blank margin of the last leaf; else very good. This copy has never been sewn or cut and still unfolds as a single sheet.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK being pictorial lessons on form, comparison, and number, for children under seven years of age. With explanations.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1867. Fourth Edition. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. Cover rubbed and worn at corners and edges; cloth spine renewed, endpapers replaced; one leaf with a tear in the blank margin; some light marking and text-block browning; else a very good copy of this important children's book first published in Edinburgh in 1858.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK being pictorial lessons on form, comparison, and number, for children under seven years of age. With explanations by Nicholas Bohny.
Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1858. Printed title, preface leaf, and 36 full-page hand-coloured lithographed pages, printed on rectos only, 24 of which bear three strip illustrations, the remaining 12, have two strip illustrations. Original cloth-backed hand-coloured pictorial boards. Oblong folio. First U. K. edition. Covers rubbed and worn at corners and edges, and dust-soiled; lacking endpapers; name on title; title and Preface leaf spotted; else a very good copy of this important children's book, the hand-coloured illustrations clean and fresh.
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THE NEW PICTURE BOOK. [Whittington and His Cat].
Derby: J. Rosewarne, No date [circa 1835/40]. [8] pages. Illustrated with 8 poorly printed/worn wood-engravings. Original printed blue wrappers with wood-engravings to both panels. 90 x 65. Unstitched as issued. Small corner loss from upper corner of front wrapper; else very good. A scarce chapbook.
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THE NEW READING MADE EASY; Being one of the best Books extant for teaching the First Rudiments of Reading & Spelling. A New Edition.
Lincoln: W. Brooke, 1803. 72 pages. Wood-engraved frontispiece, wood-engraved alphabet. Original printed boards, sometime re-backed in calf. 134 x 84 mm. A very good copy. A scarce provincial printing of this classic text.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE; an instructive and entertaining history.
Dublin: William Espy, 1822. 180 pages. Illustrated with a wood-engraved frontispiece, vignette on title, and 5 other full-page wood-engravings. Contemporary sheep with gilt banding. Worn at head of spine; else a very good copy.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE. An Instructive and Entertaining History, for the use of Children of both Sexes. Translated from the French. Embellished with Thirty-two beautiful Cuts. Second edition.
London: John Stockdale, 1789. Four volumes bound as two as issued. 173; 156; 137; 177, [1 ad'] pages. Illustrated with thirty full-page wood-engravings by John Bewick. Bound in slightly later half-pebbled cloth over marbled boards. Lacks 8 pages of ad's to the last volume [removed when re-bound]; else a very good clean set of a scarce book. First published in Hamburg 1779-80, and in London in 1788. See Tattersfield JB44.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE; an instructive & entertaining history.
London: Harvey and Darton, 1821. 180 pages, including a frontispiece and five other full-page wood-engravings. Original quarter green roan gilt over marbled boards. Binding: 14.3 x 9cm. Edges of binding rubbed; ownership name on endpaper; a very good copy. Darton G161 for an edition published in French in 1798 and again in 1807; this edition not mentioned.
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THE NEW ROBINSON CRUSOE, Designed for the Amusement and Instruction of the Youth of Both Sexes. Translated from the original German. Embellished with cuts. Price six pence.
London: E. Newbery, 1799. [1-5]6-128 pages. Illustrated with woodcut frontispiece and thirteen other fine cuts, all by John Bewick, two of which are signed. Original Dutch floral boards. 11.3x8.2cms. Spine and hinges repaired; else a very good, clean copy of a rare edition. Contained in a morocco-backed folding box. This edition with cuts by John Bewick was first published in 1790 and re-issued in 1797 and 1790. This particular printing was unknown to Roscoe, though he lists a copy each of the editions of 1790 and 1797 (J49). Tattersfield JB45. Not in Osborne, Oppenheimer or Gumuchian. One copy only of this edition recorded by ESTC: University of Michigan Library..
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THE NEW ROYAL BATTLEDORE. (Price One Penny).
Kettering: Joseph Toller, No date. (Circa 1830). A single sheet folded to make a bifolium with a flap. Grey card lined on the verso with printer's waste and with a text leaf laid onto it. Wood-engraving of a zebra on the flap and three other wood-engravings in the text on the verso: a woman seated at a spinning wheel; an angel guiding an infant on a raft at sea to the safety of the shore; Mother Hubbard and her dog. The text comprises upper and lower case alphabets, irregular alphabets and two and three letter words and syllables. Unfolded: 13.3 x 21.7cm. folded to 13.3 x 8.5cm. A fine copy of a scarce item..
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THE NEW ROYAL BATTLEDORE. (Price One Penny).
Kettering: Joseph Toller, No date. (Circa 1830). A single sheet folded to make a bifolium with a flap. Grey card lined on the verso with printer's waste and with a text leaf laid onto it. Wood-engraving of a zebra on the flap and three other wood-engravings in the text on the verso: a man seated basket-weaving; a sorry-looking man pursued by a serpent and a goose; a herald with a proclamation. The text comprises upper and lower case alphabets, irregular alphabets and two and three letter words and syllables. Unfolded: 13.3 x 21.7cm. folded to 13.3 x 8.5cm. Neat ownership name, 'Patience' on front panel; else a fine copy of a scarce item.
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THE NEW RUPERT BOOK.
London. "Daily Express" Publication. No date [1938]. Hardcover. Red cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards showing Rupert standing in a tree. Slight foxing to endpapers and to fore-edges; some minor rubbing to cover's extremities; ownership inscription to front paste-down endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE NEW RUPERT BOOK. The Daily Express Annual.
1951.
Hardcover. Not price-clipped. Ownership box neatly filled. Slight bumping at head & heel of spine; else very good.
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THE NEW YEAR’S FEAST on his Coming of Age.
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THE NEW-ENGLAND PRIMER IMPROVED For the more easy attaining the true reading of English. To which is added The Assembly of Divines, and Mr. Cotton’s Catechism. Boston: Printed by Edward Draper… 1777.
Hartford: Facsimile edition published in Hartford by Mr. Ira Webster in 1850. Illustrated with woodcuts. Original roan backed plain paper-covered boards with the later addition of a pastedown of flowers emerging from a shoe to the upper panel. 115 x 85 mm. A very good, clean copy.
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THE NEW-YORK PRECEPTOR; or, Third Book.
New-York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No date [1822/23]. 68 pages. Illustrated throughout with wood-engravings. Original semi-stiff pictorial card covers. 140 x 89 mm. A near fine copy of a very attractively produced primer.
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