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THE RAILWAY TRAIN.
London: Frederick Warne & Co, No date [circa 1920]. [16] pages, including pastedown pictorial card covers. 32.2 x 25.5 cm. Illustrated in chromo-lithography throughout. Worn and a little chipped at spine, but a very good copy. Ex-Warne Library file copy, with ‘Property Room’ label to upper cover, and a ‘Not to be taken away’ stamp to the margin of the second page.
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THE RATIONAL DAME; or, Hints Towards Supplying Prattle for Children.
London: Printed and Sold by John Marshall and Co. at No. 4 Aldermary Church Yard, in Bow-Lane, No date [circa 1784-86]. [4] xviii, 19 -115, [1 Errata] pages. Engraved frontispiece and nine full-page engraved plates comprising ninety illustrations throughout the text, featuring images of animals, insects, and reptiles. Recent full sheep with a black title label to the spine. 12mo. Text block uncut. First edition. Ownership name on title; small worn hole running through blank margin of fore-edge; a very good, clean copy of a rare and important book designed by Fenn for mothers to teach natural history to their children.
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THE RATIONAL EXHIBITION.
Harvey & Darton… & William Darton. Price one Shilling, 1824. [3] 4-60pp. Wood-engraving on title of scene from a Dame School and 22 other fine wood-engravings throughout the text. Original printed semi-stiff pink wraps. Spine expertly repaired; else a fine, crisp copy. Probably compiled and illustrated by William Darton, and first published circa 1800. Osborne 137. Oppenheimer 2148. Darton G228(6).
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THE RATIONAL EXHIBITION. Price one Shilling.
London: Darton & Harvey, No date [1806]. [3] 4-60 pages. Engraved title-page showing a scene from a Dame School, and 22 other fine wood-engravings throughout the text. Original printed semi-stiff buff wraps. 12mo. Tiny burn-hole in pages 3 and 4, not affecting text; front endpaper loosening; else an excellent copy. Probably compiled and illustrated by William Darton, and first published circa 1800. G228(3).
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THE REAL SKY-BLUE. Illustrated by Mary Shillabeer.
London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1936. 55 pages. Illustrated with one very large folding colour plate; a coloured volvelle; three one-page colour plates, one of which has a top hat that opens to reveal a tempestuous sky; and numerous black & white. Original pictorial boards; original price-clipped dust-wrapper. First U.K. edition of a German children’s book. Spine little worn at head & heel; the front panel of the wrapper is lacking a piece from the title, and generally a little worn; the large folding plate has a very small area of creasing at one of the edges; else a very good copy.
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THE RED BOOK. By the author of “Little Henry and his Bearer.”
London: Religious Tract Society, No date [early 1830’s]. 36 pages. Engraved frontispiece and engravings within the text. Contemporary quarter red sheep gilt over marbled wrappers. 142 x 94 mm. Spine a little worn; else a very good copy.
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THE RED SHOES. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with sixteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 119, [5 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; old soft crease in title; short tear to one ad' leaf; head & heel of spine a little worn; else a good plus copy.
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THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF AN OLD WOMAN AND HER PIG. An Ancient Tale in a Modern Dress.
London: John Harris, No date [watermarked 1827]. Title and 16 leaves, all printed on one side only. 16 hand-coloured engravings with text beneath. Lacks original printed wrappers. First edition. Marjorie Moon’s copy, in wrapper made and titled by her, with her bookplate to the verso of the front wrapper. A very good copy. See Moon 708(1).
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THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Splendidly Illustrated and Magnificently Illuminated by The Son of a Genius. Drawn on stone by H. G. Hine.
London: Grant & Griffith, No date [1854]. 12 leaves, each lithographed on one side only and coloured by hand. Original decorative leather-backed semi-stiff wrappers. Oblong 4to. 166 x 260 mm. First edition thus. Some marking and soiling; covers have some old crease marks; but a very good copy of this wonderfully illustrated and rare book. Henry George Hine (1811-1895) was a well-known comic illustrator of the time, working for 'Punch' and 'The Illustrated London News.' He illustrated the Comic Almanack with George Cruikshank; also 'The Turkish Alphabet' by R. B. Brough. This example of the accumulative rhyme is first recorded in England in John Newbery's Nurse Truelove's New Years-Gift of 1755, although there are many examples which date from earlier times, including a Hebrew chant dating from 1590.
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THE REMARKABLE PREDICTIONS OF ROVERT NIXON, The Cheshire Prophet; including an account of the strange manner, singular life, and extraordinary death of one of the most eccentric persons that was every endowed with the gift of prophecy.
Devonport: Printed and Published by S. & J. Keys, No date [ circa 1850s/60s]. 12 pages. Original printed pictorial wrappers. 179 x 106 mm. A very good copy of a scarce provincial printing.
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The Renowned History of JACK THE GIANT KILLER. With a Coloured Engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson. Price Two-pence, No date [circa 1840]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured engraved frontispiece of two scenes. Original yellow wrappers. 13.4 x 8.9 cm. Spine expertly restored; else fine.
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The Renowned History of the SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. 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. 13.8 x 9 cm. Spine expertly restored; some foxing to title-page; else fine.
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The Renowned History of the SEVEN CHAMPIONS OF CHRISTENDOM. With a coloured engraving.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1830's]. 12 pages. Hand-coloured frontispiece bearing two images. Original printed green wrappers. 14.3 x 9.2 cm. Spine splitting at foot; else very good.
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THE RENOWNED HISTORY OF VALENTINE AND ORSON. Embellished with engravings.
London: Tabart and Co. at the Juvenile and School-Library, 1804. 119, 3 booklist, pages. Illustrated with five hand-coloured engraved plates. Original printed boards. 14.2 x 8.8 cm. First edition thus. Spine restored; else a very good copy. Rare, see Moon 142; she lists two copies only. This is a longer version of the story than the sixpenny edition published by Tabart. The engravings represent the principal scenes of ‘the famous Romance’ performed at the Theatre Royal Covent garden at the time of the book’s publication.
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THE RHYME OF A RUN and other verse by Florence Harrison.
London: Blackie and Son Ltd, No date [1907]. [92] pages. Illustrated with 21 mounted full-colour plates, an illustrated title-page, and monochrome drawings throughout by Florence Harrison. Original green cloth, titles and decoration to spine and front in gilt, black, dark green and orange, decorative endpapers. Oblong quarto. First edition. Small splash mark on upper cover, else a near fine copy.
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THE RIB OF THE GREEN UMBRELLA. With drawings by Edward Ardizzone.
London: Collins, 1960. Hardcover. Dust-wrapper. First edition. Light browning to endpapers; slight wear to wrapper at heel of spine; else a very good copy.
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THE RIDDLE BOOK; or, Fireside Amusements.
Derby: Thomas Richardson, No date [circa 1835]. 28 pages, including pastedown wrappers. Wood-engraved frontispiece and 23 wood-engravings throughout. Original wrappers with woodcut to upper wrap. A very good copy.
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THE RIDDLER'S RIDDLE BOOK; or a Choice Collection of Riddles. By Peter Puzzlecap, Esq. The Little Rhyming Riddler. Price One Penny.
Banbury: J. G. Rusher, No date [circa 1830]. 16 pages, the first a pastedown to the front wrapper. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts. Cuts to both wrappers. Untrimmed as issued. A very good copy.
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The Right, Pleasant, and Delightful HISTORY OF FORTUNATUS, and his Two Sons. I. Containing an Account of his Noble Birth, Remarkable Travels, and Strange Adventures, in many Kingdoms; how he obtained a Purse which supplied him with a Continuance of Money; and a Wishing Hat, by which he could be conveyed in an Instant, to any Place where he desired to be: As also his Death, at which he Bequeath’d his Purse and Hat to his Two Sons, with his sumptuous Funeral Monument, &c. II. Containing the Travels and Remarkable Actions of his Sons, with their untimely Deaths and Burials. First Penn’d in the Dutch tongue, thence Abstracted, and now Published in English, by T.C. The Twelfth Edition. Illustrated with a Variety of New Pictures, and New Additions. [Price Bound One Shilling.]
London: C. Hitch and L. Hawes…, No date [circa 1758]. 168 pages. Illustrated with a leaf at the front that bears the half-title and a large wood-engraving, with an ‘Advertisement’ on the verso and a smaller wood-engraving, plus another 15 woodcuts within the text. Contemporary sheep that has been re0caked and titles on the spine. 12mo. 148 x 85 mm. Some leaves trimmed close to the text, five with slight loss of some letters. Else a very good copy.
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The right pleasant and delightful HISTORY OF FORTUNATUS, and His Two Sons.. In two parts. Part I. Containing, An Account of his noble Birth, remarkable Travels, and strange Adventures, in many Kingdoms. How he obtained a Purse, which supplied him with a Continuance of Money, and also an Hat, by which he could be conveyed in an instant to any Place where he Wished to be. As also his Death, at which he bequeathed his Purse and Wishing Hat to his two Sons, with his Sumptuous Funeral, &c. Part II. Containing The Travels and remarkable Actions of his Two Sons, with their untimely Deaths and Burials. First Penned in the Dutch Tongue, and thence Translated, and now Published in English. The Thirteenth Edition. Illustrated with Variety of New Pictures. Price bound One Shilling.
London: C. Hitch & L. Hawes, and S. Crowder… and J. King…, No date [circa 1760]. 168 pages. Tweny woodcuts within the text. Contemporary full plain, untitled sheep, repaired at some time. 12mo. Two leaves with small paper repairs; one with the loss of a word; else a very good copy.
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