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THE SILVER PENNY, for the Amusement and Instruction of Good Children.
York: J. Kendrew, No date [circa 1830]. [32] pages the first and last being blanks pasted to the wrappers. Illustrated with a pastedown frontispiece and 24 woodcuts illustrating the letters of the alphabet, plus one tail-piece. Original wrappers with two cuts to the upper panel and one to the lower. 100 x 63 mm. A fine copy.
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THE SILVER SHILLING. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with eighteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 120, [4 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative blue cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; else a very good copy.
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THE SILVER TOY, or Picture Alphabet: for the Entertainment and Instruction of Children in the Nursery.
Wellington: F. Houlston, No date. [Circa 1825.]. 32pp., including wrappers. Hand-coloured wood-engraved frontispiece showing children in school; and twenty-six hand-coloured oval wood-engravings illustrating the letters of the alphabet, with a line of text beneath. Original wrappers with hand-coloured cuts to both covers. Original wrappers with cuts to both covers. All edges gilt. 10.3 x6.4 cm’s. This copy has some water-staining throughout. The lower cover shows a pedlar and is titled ‘A Jew.’ It is not unusual to find Houlston chapbooks hand-coloured and with gilt edging. As the basic uncoloured copy retailed at twopence, the coloured copy was probably double.
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THE SKY-LARK. A Collection of New Songs.
London: Printed and Sold by J. Catnach, No date [circa 1835]. 8 pages. Wood-engraved vignette on cover/title, and five 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 SLEEPING BEAUTY.
London: Issued by J. & J. Colman, No date [circa 1890 ]. [16] pages, of which 4 are full-colour chromolithograph illustrations. Original pictorial soft covers, oblong: 6.5 x 9.5 cm., The text is printed with the initials T.E. M. at the close. The verso of the front covers bears an advertisement for Colman's Mustard, Starch, Blue & Corn Flour; the recto of the lower cover a pictorial ad' for Colman's mustard. A very good copy. These little books were probably printed for Colman's by the London publisher Augustin Thierry who issued this series with his own imprint and without reference to Colman.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
J. March Waterloo Rd. [London], No date [circa 1850’s]. One Farthing. [8] pages, including outer wrappers. Illustrated with three coloured engravings, one uncoloured, and another, coloured being the cover/title. 120 x 80 mm. Not stitched; some discolouration from the coloured plates; spine beginning to split at heel; else a very good copy of a rare ‘farthing’ chapbook with coloured illustrations.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY.
[London.]: J. March, Pr. Waterloo Road, No date [circa 1860’s]. 8 pages, including wrappers. Colour printed pictorial title/front wrapper and three other coloured wood-engravings, and one uncoloured. 173 x 110 mm. Not stitched, but folded as an uncut sheet. A very good copy.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD. Illustrated by P[ercy] Cruikshank. LA BELLE AU BOIS DORMANT, dessins par P. Cruikshank.
London: Read & Co. 10 Johnson’s Ct. Fleet St. Pris. H. Mandeville…, No date [between 1847 & 1867]. 13 leaves [25] pages. Illustrated with 12 colour illustrations. Original pictorial wrappers. 220 x 169 mm. Spine expertly repaired; edges and corners a little worn; covers rubbed; else very good. Scarce; one copy only listed on Library Hub.
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THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Told by C. S. Evans. And Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
London: William Heinemann, 1920. 110 pages. Pictorial end-papers; colour title and frontispiece; one full colour tipped in plate and numerous silhouette illustrations throughout. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. Pictorial dust-wrapper. Quarto. 258 x 195 mm. First edition. Slight wear to corners or boards and to edges of wrappers, else a near fine copy
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THE SLOVEN: to which is added The Proud Gentleman his own Shoeblack. Embellished with 15 fine Engravings on Wood.
London: Whitrow and Co. Jewry-street, Aldgate; and sold by all Booksellers, & c. in Town and Country, No date [circa 1815-20]. Price Threepence. 32 pages, the first and last being blanks, pasted to the wrappers. Pastedown wood-engraved frontispiece and nine wood-engravings within the text, not fifteen as the title states. Original printed wrappers. 116 x 75 mm. Small corner lost from rear wrapper; else a very good copy of a scarce chapbook.
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THE SLOWCOACH.
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co. Ltd, No date [copyright 1910]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper.284, [12 ad's] pages. Illustrated with 14 coloured plates by M. V. Wheelhouse., plus a double-page map. Original pictorial cloth. Octavo. Probably an early reprint. Name on front endpaper; address on rear. A very good copy.
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THE SLY CORMORANT AND THE FISHES New adaptations into poetry of the Aesop Fables. Illustrated by Errol Le Cain.
Worcester. Kestrel Books, 1977. Hardback in clipped pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. A near fine copy in a like dust-wrapper.
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THE SNOW MAN. And other Stories. Translated by H. W. Dulcken. Illustrated with fourteen pictures. The Hans Andersen Library for the Young.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date [circa 1870's]. Hardcover. No dust-wrapper. 118, [6 ad's] pages. Colour frontispiece. Original decorative cloth, gilt. Fcap octavo. Ownership name: 'Royal Victoria Hospital' on front endpaper; endpapers a little foxed; else a very good copy.
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THE SNOWMAN.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. Original pictorial glazed boards. First edition. A fine copy.
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THE SONG OF SIX-PENCE PICTURE BOOK. Containing Sing a Song of Sixpence A Gaping Wide-mouthed, Waddling Frog The Old Courtier The Multiplication Table in Verse. With thirty-two pages of illustrations by Walter Crane. Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans.
London: George Routledge and Sons, No date[1876]. 33 leaves, each printed on one side only, 32 of which bear coloured wood-engravings. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. 4to. First edition. Some light rubbing and wear to the extremities; gift inscription for 1877; slight cracking of inner joints; else a very good copy. So far as we are aware this title was issued in two bindings: pictorial cloth gilt, and pictorial paper-covered boards, the latter being the less expensive. However the paper-covered issue is much rarer, few copies having survived the ravages of the nursery.
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THE SONGS OF INNOCENCE By William Blake. With Desings by Celia Levetus.
London: Wells Gardner Darton & Co, 1899. 118, [2], [4 ad’s] pages. Illustrated throughout in lack & white. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. All edges gilt. 76 x 64 mm. First edition of this miniature edition. Front inner joint cracked; boards a little rubbed and spine darkened; else a very good, clean copy of this rare miniature.
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THE SPARROW.
London: E. Newbery, 1798. xv, [1 blank], 200 pages. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and a wood-engraved vignette on title. Original quarter green vellum over marbled boards, with a paper label to spine. Small 12mo. 139 x 92 mm. First edition. Short tear in one leaf without loss; corners worn; else a very good copy. Roscoe J 208.
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THE SPIDER'S PALACE and other stories. With illustrations by George Charlton.
London: Chatto and Windus, 1931. vii, [1], [2], 3 - 164pp. Illustrated with four full-page colour plates 7 full-page black & white drawings, and many black & white drawings within the text. Original quarter buckram gilt over decorative paper-covered boards. Octavo. First edition. Number 91 of a signed, limited edition of 110 copies of which a 100 were for sale. A fine copy.
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THE STORIES THAT LITTLE BREECHES TOLD, and the pictures which Charles Bennett drew for them.
London: Sampson, Low, Son and Co, 1863. 55 pages. Illustrated with 20 full-page engraved plates. Original pictorial cloth gilt. 4to. First edition. Slight fading to spine; some light spotting on blank recto of frontispiece; else a near fine copy. Scarce.
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THE STORY OF A APPLE PIE. Illustrated by E. A. Cooke.
London: R. E. King & Co. Denmark Street, No date [circa 1890]. [24] pages of rhymes and illustrations, plus a frontispiece in full colour. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards. 212 x 168 mm. Boards worn at edges and corners and covers rubbed; else a very good copy of a scarce edition of this famous alphabet, with no copies traced in Library Hub.
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